Charlotte Eriksson Quotes - Page 3

Dear me, one day I'll make you proud.

Freedom can choke you if you don't know how to handle it.

He left that morning, the last words still echoing in my head, and though he said he’d come back one day I know a broken promise from a right one for I have used them myself and there is no coming back. Minds like ours are can’t be tamed and the price for freedom is the price we pay.

I just want to be someone, to mean something to anyone…

My mind is killing me”
- The Glass Child, Stuck In My Mind

... but I believe that music can change a life, because it changed mine.

And the rain drops kept falling like the sweetest music
leaving tears on the glass,
which is what music does to me
most of the time
but silence too. and rain.

My home will never be a place, but a state of mind, which I find through my music.

So I forced myself to step out of my comfort zone and go out and connect with people. I realised that no one knew me here. I could become whoever I wanted to be for these people, and that became my courage.

I didn't do music to live; I lived so that I could do music.

Sometimes you have to realise that things will never change if you don’t make a change yourself, and sometimes, you need to realise that it only happened so that you could learn something.

Are you in love? What makes your heart beat faster? What do you want people to think about when they hear your name.

Sometimes you need to sit lonely on the floor in a quiet room in order to hear your own voice and not let it drown in the noise of others.

It’s called ”being an artist” for a reason; it’s something YOU ARE. It’s how you live. It’s WHO you are. How you spend your life and what you leave behind.

I want my life to be the greatest story.
My very existence will be the greatest poem.
Watch me burn.
Love always, Charlotte

I just wish you could see my demons for what they are, and lay here beside me on the floor. No words. Just your presence.

I am a worried person with a stressed out soul, living a simple life with no capital.

I am constantly torn between the will to be seen and still hidden so god damn well,
a contradiction I never figured out.

I am living a simple life with a complicated mind and I have yet to find a state of mind where I feel safe with who I am, where I am, with what I do.