Open Honest Quotes by James Arthur

Me and my mum didn't see eye-to-eye for a lot of years, and I've never really felt connected with my dad, because he wasn't…

— James Arthur

I'm a mix; I'm sure some of my Canadian friends find me very American, both in person and on the page.

— James Arthur

I often write from memory by walking around and talking to myself. Even when I'm working at a computer I write out loud, so…

— James Arthur

I'd like to think that maybe the average person is rational, and they realise that I'm not this crazy monster that, at times, I've…

— James Arthur

I had nothing and lived in the most insignificant place.

— James Arthur

It can feel like your whole world is caving in on you, and if you don't speak about it, it gets worse. You have…

— James Arthur

If art doesn't require an audience, can an intimate conversation be a work of art? Can a thought be a work of art? Maybe.…

— James Arthur

And treating poetry as a performing art emphasizes its ephemerality. A printed poem can be endlessly reprinted, photocopied, scanned, uploaded, cut and pasted -…

— James Arthur

I want each poem to be ambiguous enough that its meaning can shift, depending on the reader's own frame of reference, and depending on…

— James Arthur

Memorizing the work of others definitely made me a better writer.

— James Arthur

People were telling me it was refreshing I was real because previous 'X Factor' winners were too afraid to say anything. I decided to…

— James Arthur

Everyone wrote me off, including me.

— James Arthur

I believe strongly in what John Keats called negative capability: the trait or practice that allows a poet to remain in uncertainties, mysteries, doubts,…

— James Arthur

When I had my first panic attack, I believed that it was a heart attack.

— James Arthur

As a species, we create tools to control our environment. What excites my imagination is wilderness: our materials' ability to escape our control.

— James Arthur