Lou Doillon Quotes About Writing

Quotes about: Writing

• I'm horrified most of the time. I wish it was more complicated, but at the same time, each time I try to complicate it I hate it because I hate the idea of writing to impress.

  Lou Doillon

  Hate, Writing, Ideas

  "Lou Doillon’s Canadian Love Affair". Interview with Emily McDermott, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 19, 2016.

• I'm in my father's car at age 9 or 10 crying to Leonard Cohen's 'Famous Blue Raincoat,' thinking that you could write nearly a love letter to a man who betrayed you by having an affair with your wife. I was thinking how wonderful and pure music can be for explaining situations.

  Lou Doillon

  Father, Writing, Men

  "Lou Doillon? At 30, With Her First CD, She Won a French Grammy. Now Her CD Is Here. Lucky Us" by Jesse Kornbluth, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 24, 2013.

• I always lived with guitarists. When they would leave, I would just pick up their acoustic guitars and start doing finger picking and write.

  Lou Doillon

  Writing, Guitar, Acoustics

• The more you’re writing absolutely honestly, and absolutely bare of intention - even if it feels absolutely personal and small because it’s at your own scale - other people relate to it much more.

  Lou Doillon

  Writing, People, Intention

  "Lou Doillon? At 30, With Her First CD, She Won a French Grammy. Now Her CD Is Here. Lucky Us" by Jesse Kornbluth, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 24, 2013.

• The whole process of music for me is something absolutely honest and really naked and bare, so I never forced myself to write in French.

  Lou Doillon

  Writing, Naked, Honest

  "Lou Doillon Loses Love and Finds Her Voice". Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. August 7, 2012.

• I'm a very compulsive person, so I spend most of my time drawing or writing my diary, patching things up and carving bits of wood - I've carved two of my guitars.

  Lou Doillon

  Writing, Guitar, Two

  "Lou Doillon love and finds her voice". Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. August 7, 2012.

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