Andy Mineo Quotes

My interest lies in my self-expression - what's inside of me - not what I'm in.

I've found that in now having experienced what it's like to make records and just through growing up in general that you should be expressive about what's affecting you instead of trying to sing about a subject just for the sake of other people getting something from it.

All that I am is me. So I'm not really a poet or a writer or an actor or an activist; I'm me, and these are things that I do.

I am my own experiment. I am my own work of art.

In everything I do, I find some of myself, or a lot of myself, and put it into the role.

You just get out there and be what you want to be. That's part of evolving and part of staying true to yourself - part of remaining alive in a real authentic, long-term sense creatively: not listening to what other people tell you to be.

I don't feel I have to be Jackson Browne. Still, I like to say something.

Become aware of what is in you. Announce it, pronounce it, produce it, and give birth to it.

I have never regarded myself as this or that. I have been too busy being myself to bother about regarding myself.

Nobody can teach what is inside a person; it has to be discovered for oneself and a way must be found to express it.

To me, the most interesting part of 'True Blood' is that the entire crux of the show is based on identity and finding your true identity.

What we try to do in TSAW, which is Tasha Smith Actors Workshop, is to help the actor get to the core of who they really are and how they really feel. So, we may have them do a dump, where you just basically express everything that you feel that you have not been able to express, whether it's good, bad, or ugly.

I didn't start to work until I realized what it was I had to offer. I stopped imitating performers I admired and started just being myself.

I'm not really on a mission to tell anybody anything. I'd rather be figured out.

Life is the most versatile thing under the sun; and in the pursuit of life and character the author who works in a groove works in blinkers.

In every role, a part of me gets to come out.

Once you get everything out of your head about what everybody else is going to think, will radio play it - and I hope they do, I really do - once you shed all of that and just be who you are, that's who I am. That's taken a lot of growing up. I've come into myself musically and as a woman, and I hope to keep growing. If you don't grow, you die.

I'm not going to become a costume version or caricature of myself; I like to morph.

I like to use all of myself, and acting wasn't doing that.

Many a time I have wanted to stop talking and find out what I really believed.

I wanted to become me, totally me. The more me, the better. I instinctively knew this and I was right.

I'll never be August Wilson - but what I can be is more of myself.

People often say that this or that person has not yet found himself. But the self is not something one finds, it is something one creates.

My biggest challenge was to make sure that the songs I did were who I am.

To me, searching for perfection isn't anywhere near as interesting as trying to find your own voice.