Benjamin Booker Quotes

I've never been one for keeping a journal, so my songs were my journals. They allowed me to express my feelings and let people know what was going on with me. I knew that somebody would relate.

There's so much stuff that you see every day that you want to talk about, but I'm not the type to open up, so the only way I could open up is through music.

Over and over again, I'm trying to express or communicate these big and small struggles to the world, and really to myself.

I've always tried to get around writing love songs, I guess because I've always had a hard time saying, 'I love you.'

'Warm Bodies' ended up becoming one of the most personal relatable things I've written.

Acting has always been a way for me to express myself, and show all my vulnerabilities and flaws through my characters.

I'm really out of touch with myself emotionally. I've always had a hard time talking about how I feel.

Songwriting is like a therapy, it's a connection that you have with another person, and I'm not scared of it at all for some reason.

For a long time, I couldn't tell somebody how I felt or I couldn't talk about my problems because I felt like I was complaining. Writing would help me or it would be like, I can't tell you how I feel, but I can play you a song.

At the end of the day, I use music to be able to communicate to people.

I write songs when I need to. That's how I write songs: when there's something that's bugging me. If something's troubling me, and I don't really know how to articulate it to people directly - my friends, my family, or my girlfriend - then I'll write a song about it because I know I can articulate it that way.

Rap helps me connect emotionally.

Everyone writes in whatever way feels comfortable to them. People write songs because maybe they don't feel so comfortable talking about whatever matters.

There was a period when I had a hard time reconciling all the different parts of me in a way that I thought would make sense to others.

I internalize everything, keep everything inside. I'm not used to spilling my guts, and when you have to do that on film to make a point, it's hard. It's rough. I don't think it's as easy as people think.

The songs come from a vulnerable place, but expressing that part of yourself can also make you feel fearless.

I was the youngest; I had two imperious older brothers - I didn't get to often complete sentences at the dinner table. So writing was a way of saying what nobody asked me to say.

Why do I write? It's not that I want people to think I am smart, or even that I am a good writer. I write because I want to end my loneliness.

I'm feeling more and more thoughts that aren't songs, just reflections. I'm always been very shy and in some ways a prisoner in one language and I feel that the liberation of creativity has to be in all senses. So I've been deciding to publishing something very simple but very small at the same time, nothing egocentric.

Sometimes I feel like I used to be a person that liked to express himself a lot and put my feelings out there.

Songwriting is my way of channeling my feelings and my thoughts. Not just mine, but the things I see, the people I care about. My head would explode if I didn't get some of that stuff out.

Now, performing is second nature and I love every second of it. It is a very emotional thing when I can't play a song; maybe I'm hitting on something that I don't want to deal with. All of it is so personal. It is like therapy.

The truth is, it's easier for me to write than talk... to express the state I'm in at any time.

Hmmm. I think a lot of people can write poems that are howls of anguish. I think I've probably written such things and then torn them up.

I wrote lyrics that were intensely personal to me a few years ago. Maybe people know me better now.