Leon Bridges Quotes

I just write the stuff I want to at the time, what feels right for me.

If I haven't any talent for writing books or newspaper articles, well, then I can always write for myself.

I'm an emotional sort of person in general and I have a vivid imagination, so I feel the whole spectrum of emotion strongly when I write.

I draw what I feel, which is no more than doing my job.

I wrote songs when I was little, and I wrote a journal, but I don't think I knew how to let that truth come out yet.

I think without writing I would feel completely useless.

Everybody's going to approach a character differently, depending upon what they bring to it on their own intellectual level or their feelings from their heart and soul.

You can't help parts of yourself leaking into other characters.

I rarely draw what I see. I draw what I feel in my body.

Everything is autobiography, even if one writes something that is totally objective. The fact that it's a subject that seizes you makes it autobiographical.

The writer needs to react to his or her own internal universe, to his or her own point of view. If he or she doesn't have a personal point of view, it's impossible to be a creator.

I think that the practice of writing every day was what made me remember that writing doesn't have anything to do with publishing books. It can be totally separate and private - a comforting thought.

Writing is an incredibly creatively empowering experience for me. It is the place where nobody tries to control what I'm doing.

I've been searching for a genre that would be most adequate to my vision of the world to convey how my ear hears and my eyes see life. I tried this and that, and finally, I chose a genre where human voices speak for themselves. But I don't just record a dry history of events and facts; I'm writing a history of human feelings.

As an artist, I want to interpret my feelings

I believe in the autobiographical concept only to the degree that I am able to put onto film all that's passing through my head at the moment of shooting.

My writing process is consecutive, like, 'mad scientist' crazy. It's not totally writing something that rhymes or even writing a rap necessarily. Sometimes it's just writing down stuff that I'm going through.

All my songs are things that have happened to me.

I like to live in my own mind, regardless of everyone and everything, working out the intimate puzzles that are my stories and novels.

When I go into the studio I just want to make something that feels good.

I have certain viewpoints that come out in certain shayaris.

I express myself through song when I can't let people in on my thoughts otherwise. I need the creative process.

The interesting part about being an artist is that the ways in which you express yourself are not always readily available.

Singing is how I express everything. Hunger, needing new clothes... it's all through song.

I don't think I could write about something I've never experienced or felt; all my songs are about things I've been through.