Frank Iero Quotes

Philip Larkin didn't write for several years before his life ended. And when he was asked why he didn't write, he said the muse deserted him. And when I read that, it really had a profound effect upon me, sort of scared me. So that's why I think I have no right to assume that some thought is going to come... But I think, in my imagination, if it is it, there will probably be something else I'm interested in.

I think the most important thing to remember is that pain passes. And artistically, the pain is going to pass. It's what you want to express out of the pain as opposed to indulging in the agony-and-pain mantra of songwriting that became such a hit in the '90s and still, all the way up to now.

You can't be creative when you're completely happy.

Inspiration is an awakening, a quickening of all man's faculties, and it is manifested in all high artistic achievements.

Writing, for me, is very inspiration-dependent. And inspiration can be a jerk.

When you're heartbroken, you're at your most creative - you have to channel all your energies into something else to not think about it. Contentment is a creativity killer, but don't worry - I'm very capable of making myself discontented.

Any working composer or painter or sculptor will tell you that inspiration comes at the eighth hour of labour rather than as a bolt out of the blue. We have to get our vanities and our preconceptions out of the way and do the work in the time allotted.

I think suffering has always been an incentive for my creativity.

For me, creation can only come out of a certain kind of unhappiness. They say in Japan, this thing like the hungry spirit - the hungry mind - is what gets you going forward.

I really just want to be a writer and a storyteller. But maybe pain is one of the things you have to feel in order to be creative.

I love cinema and creating new things, but essentially, I am creating all this because I want people to see it.

Some songs just fall out of you. And some you have to wrestle out like an abscess.

Any good film you see gives you enough motivation and adrenaline rush to produce good content, while a bad film can get you so angry that you produce even better content.

I'm always better when I'm not doing well, that's when I write good songs.

Usually composers need a reason to write. I need a deadline.

You always hope that the cloak of inspiration will fall, and you'll be O.K.

...a writer's works, like the water in an artesian well, mount to a height which is in proportion to the depth to which suffering has penetrated his soul.

Art never comes from happiness.

Passion is the breath we take, the water we drink to sustain ourselves. Without air and water we perish; without passion an artist will wither and blow away.

Don't think about making art, just get it done.

All impediments in fancy's course Are motives of more fancy.

You must have the devil in you to succeed in the arts.

I need the pain of loneliness to make my imagination work.

Creative work is often driven by pain. It may be that if you don't have something in the back of your head driving you nuts, you may not do anything. It's not a good arrangement. If I were God, I wouldn't have done it that way.