#ay

I never walk into the studio and say, I'm going to write a song called... 'X' or called 'Slow Me Down.' I write a ton of lyrics, often the title is somewhere in those 10 pages of... I call it brain vomit. It's kind of like whatever comes out of my head and I'm unabashedly just writing it down. ↗

— Emmy Rossum

#call #called #comes #down #going

I'd say that my musical influences are anywhere from pop-rock electronica, new age and classical. But I think that specifically, bands - I love Jem, I love Sigur Ross, I love David Gray, I love Elliot Smith... a lot of different people. But I don't find lyrical inspiration from anybody. ↗

— Emmy Rossum

#anybody #anywhere #bands #classical #david

It wasn't my intention in going after this part but I suppose now I do. The adult roles are a lot meatier - you're not always just the daughter or the girlfriend or whatever. ↗

— Emmy Rossum

#after #always #daughter #girlfriend #going

It may offend us to hear our own thoughts expressed by others: we are not sure enough of their souls. ↗

— Jean Rostand

#expressed #hear #may #offend #others

People who take risks like Amy Winehouse and Norah Jones take a second to catch on, but eventually they do because they're different and honest in a musical landscape that's not always like that. ↗

— Emmy Rossum

#amy #because #catch #different #eventually

There's something safe about playing a character, but then it's like, 'Who am I underneath it all?' ↗

— Emmy Rossum

#am #character #i #like #playing

Nothing leads the scientist so astray as a premature truth. ↗

— Jean Rostand

#leads #nothing #premature #scientist #truth

Far too often the choices reality proposes are such as to take away one's taste for choosing. ↗

— Jean Rostand

#choices #choosing #far #often #proposes

In order to remain true to oneself one ought to renounce one's party three times a day. ↗