#real

The paintings that really excite me have an erotic element or side to them irrespective of subject matter. ↗

— Lucian Freud

#excite #irrespective #matter #me #paintings

But there were highs as well as lows, it was as though they said everybody was picking on the man who had more practical real life experiences than the whole batch of them put together. ↗

— James Stockdale

#everybody #experiences #had #highs #life

We have long observed that every neurosis has the result, and therefore probably the purpose, of forcing the patient out of real life, of alienating him from actuality. ↗

— Sigmund Freud

#every #forcing #him #life #long

Nobody told Don Henley or me that we were going to make it as solo artists, but I can speak for Don when I say that we are both really happy now that the band is not together. ↗

— Glenn Frey

#band #both #don henley #going #happy

There is no seam between my songs and myself-they really are me. It's not like I'm performing; I'm just singing stuff that I really believe. ↗

— David Friedman

#between #i #just #like #me

As time goes by, I realize that I do trust the wind. And I often write my songs for myself. ↗

— David Friedman

#i #i do #myself #often #realize

I even went so far as to become a Southern Baptist for a while, until I realized that they didn't hold 'em under long enough. ↗

— Kinky Friedman

#become #enough #even #far #hold

I've written several deeply personal songs this year, which I really love. Some of them came out of intense sadness. This has been an extremely difficult year for me. ↗

— David Friedman

#came #deeply #difficult #extremely #i

In the music industry, we value large success. I realized that while I would like that, that it's not what my writing is about. And if I start making it about that, it becomes impure. ↗

— David Friedman

#becomes #i #impure #industry #large

Songwriting is the most terrifying thing to me, because you are really laying your heart out there. ↗

— David Friedman

#heart #laying #me #most #out