Etta James Quotes

I feel like my music at least allows me to release the other side of me, a more vulnerable and sensitive side.

I'm not a super emotional person, so that's one reason I love acting - it makes me deal with myself in that kind of way.

I feel the emotion that life conjures up and the songs I write get me closer to my feelings and realising who I am. It's a natural process.

Music is there to access those dark emotional corners that we don't normally get too close to.

I feel like everything I make is personal to me.

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'm shy, and I can hide behind my acting and discover the truth about myself because it's cathartic in that way. But I tend not to read reviews.

I think I have a lot of internal energy, which does need to come out.

But I always wanted my characters to be more than cyphers for the failings of their world. And I never had to look too hard to find a part of myself in them.

A human being has so many skins inside, covering the depths of the heart. We know so many things, but we don't know ourselves! Why, thirty or forty skins or hides, as thick and hard as an ox's or bear's, cover the soul. Go into your own ground and learn to know yourself there.

Use the creative process - singing, writing, art, dance, whatever - to get to know yourself better.

It is only in solitude that I ever find my own core.

At a point in every person's life, one has to look deeply into the mirror of one's soul and decide one's unique truth in the world, not as we may want to see it or hope to see it, but as it is.

I think if a character appeals to you, there are certain parts of yourself will come to the fore and other parts that will play down.

The best writing really does come from the deepest, most private part of you.

If there's a common thread to my books, it is that each involves an individual's journey. The individual must stay true to themselves.

The reason I write is that I'm not in dialogue with my emotions; writing puts me in touch with myself.

I think a spiritual journey is not so much a journey of discovery. It's a journey of recovery. It's a journey of uncovering your own inner nature. It's already there.

At the end of the day, you have to find the humanity in you in each character.

I have this belief that we are so vulnerable when we open ourselves up to literature. We're reminded of these real parts of ourselves.

I reveal all of myself. I bring all of myself to my roles. You only see me. You don't see anything else but me. That is who's there. They're manifestations of my own self.

I always had music growing up, but music was also like a journal. It was like my personal diary or personal journal. A lot of the things I couldn't express to an individual, I would express them in my music.

I'm just a perpetually confused and terrified person that is trying to be less so all the time, and music is the byproduct of that.

I feel very strong about 'Brother.' This is me. I've been writing with a much more free sky, open and free.

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.