100 Quotes by Samuel Ervin Beam

I was raised in the suburbs. I wasn't on a plantation or anything.

I was drawn to painting and filmmaking because I was interested in communicating visually, which spills over into my tendencies as a writer.

You can treat musicians like actors - you give them a roadmap but don't tell them what to do, and let their personal style or interpretation speak in the piece. And in both film and music, you create a space where people feel safe to do their best. You treat songs like scripts that can be interpreted a lot of different ways.

Well, for me, I grew up in the Carolinas, and it's our mythology. Those are the characters that we learn about how to live life and moral lessons. It wasn't Zeus and Athena. It was Job and Jesus.

You can sand something forever. You can keep working on it. All the arts are like that: there's no magical finish line. You get sick of working on it or you walk away.

I liked 'The Omen.'

At the end of the day, I can't sit down and write a song to sell.

I don't watch that much TV.

I love to sell records, but that's not what I'm into.