Quote of the Day: Alan Walker on Creativity

If you’ve ever struggled to say what you feel, only to find that the right song can speak for you, then this insight from Alan Walker is the permission slip you didn’t know you needed: “Music is a way for me to express my feelings and emotions, and I think that's the most important thing for any artist.”

Walker’s line is deceptively simple. It rejects the modern temptation to treat art as content: optimized, packaged, and judged by metrics. Instead, it frames music as a private language made public, an attempt to translate the messy interior of a person into something others can recognize. When that translation is honest, technique becomes a vehicle rather than the destination.

This matters because emotion is often what we ration most carefully. We can talk around grief, mute longing, polish anger into productivity. Music, at its best, bypasses that censorship. It turns vulnerability into craft and offers listeners a strange relief: the realization that their own unedited feelings have a place to land. The result is not just entertainment, but communion, one person’s interior life rendered shareable.

As a Norwegian producer who broke through globally with “Faded,” Alan Walker understands how a track can travel farther than a biography ever could, carrying mood and meaning across languages, ages, and screens.

And if March has a lesson, it’s that transition is the season’s signature: winter recedes, light returns, and everything unresolved starts asking for motion. Today, apply Walker’s standard to your own life, choose one feeling you’ve been avoiding and give it a form, whether that’s a melody, a paragraph, or an honest conversation. That’s not just art; it’s humanity in practice.