Susan Egan Quotes

My act has always reflected what's going on in my life.

The story of 'Lasers' is my story. I didn't have to look too far to get subject matter for this record; it was stuff that was happening to me.

When I was younger, my whole sense of self-worth was based on whether or not I was working, which was awful. And I had a baby at 20 years old, so it wasn't just about me. At around the age of 30 there was a stretch where I wasn't working - certainly not on anything I liked, anyway - and I started to do other things.

The first record I spent five years writing and it was an amalgamation of all the things that happened in my life from the time I was fifteen to the time I was twenty.

Each time I write a new piece, whether a novel, a picture book, a speech or anything, really, it has so much to do with what I'm going through personally or a problem I'm trying to work out. When I wrote my novel 'Baby,' my three children had all just gone out the door.

Having kids sets a bomb off in your life. It really makes you examine who you are, what you believe in and what you want to be. And that is magical for creativity.

As I experience life and go through things, that's what I write about.

The way I look at life, whatever I'm doing at that time in my life is going to be reflected in my songs, for the most part.

As my life changes, it gives me new things to write about.

I decided with 'Savage Season' to use a lot of things in my life as the basis.

I think 'Lost Boy' is more of a metaphor for oneself. When I listen to that song, I don't picture someone else. I kind of wrote it from a very honest place.

Your music essentially reflects everything you do, everything you've been through, in the deepest part of you.

Having children made me go down a road of serious introspection and self-examination. I think it's informed and hopefully enhanced my creativity.

Most things I go through I have to write about.

Having a little boy has taken me to a very deep place. I am starting to realize everything I ever worried about was such a waste of time.

I have been taking every step toward the future every day through making many paintings and sculptures with my deep emotion hidden in my life.

My life is at least as intricate as my readers' lives. People say that 'The Artist's Way' changed their lives, but when they talk about 'Floor Sample,' they tell me, 'I was with you all the way.'

My dream is to one day just be me and my guitar. I'm working myself to the core. Who am I, underneath everything else? I'm still on that journey, to find that core.

I still feel like a kid sometimes myself so hard to believe that I'm a mom. Now I'm an adult! It only took 38 years!

You make sacrifices to become a mother, but you really find yourself and your soul.

It's such a private thing - 'my process' - I can just say that the work that I do is like therapy between me and the character.

It's no coincidence that I began writing the day my daughter started school. I knew everything I knew before I began to write, but I was raising two children and didn't have the time to get to the typewriter.

I've been so in my moment about my life.

As boring as it sounds, I don't feel any different than I did before the 'House of Night.'

You go through life experiences. Each record captures a different turning point in my life.