Jamie Cullum Quotes

If I had a place with a studio where I could paint I'd be happy.

It's a real luxury to have a studio all to myself, somewhere to start mood boards for the next collection.

In my studio, it is unkempt and unattractive. Once I'm in my work, I don't notice where I am.

A studio, like a poem, is an intimacy and a freedom you can look out from, into each part of your life and a little beyond.

Neatness makes me feel like I have to be on my best behavior. Clutter is my natural habitat.

My last two records that I made were both quite pointed in one direction and I think I do my best stuff when it's all over the map, when there's a couple traditional things, a couple pretty rocking things.

When I see a wall that's hung with different objects, framed or unframed, what I like about it is its fluidity and rule-breaking nature. Just experiment a bit.

I just always wanted to be left alone to go into a creative space.

I've been in LA for 5 years now, and it's been very freeing creatively.

I try not to get trapped in any one musical or visual style at all.

I like the word 'artist,' but I don't like the word 'artist' inside my house.

You cannot just be working in a vast, air-conditioned loft space and think you are going to make a decent painting. Francis Bacon had a special studio built, and he felt completely emasculated in there. I have to be somewhere comfortable.

I have visualizations where I'm living in a really cool place - probably outside of town - with a really dope studio where I can record music or film things. Just have my own mini production house. That's really the thing I'd love to end up with the most and only do gigs when I needed to and also amass a little bit of a crew around me.

The studio is a time when you can do anything that you want to. You have that freedom.

When the band first started, it was so much about carving out some space for myself and our audience and our songs.

When I was younger and obsessed with becoming an artist, the hospital was my New York loft apartment. I would move the furniture around to create space on the floor, throw down some sheets and indulge in any form of art that I could get my hands on.

Fear just crushes creativity, and if I let fear into the studio and into the songwriting, I was going to let it kill the artist inside of me.

I have the space and liberty to create.

I like having a studio to go to. It's like having a job.

Of course, I'm open to all kinds of genres. In my head, there are no demarcations.

I like being surrounded by all the stuff that makes me feel creative and inspires me.

With patisserie, unlike with cooking, you have to be very precise; you can't just add a bit of this and a bit of that, because your cake starts melting. There's a lot of technique involved, but you can still be creative. Because of my artistic background, when I have that freedom I tend to do things a little bit out of the box.

There's nothing worse than coming home to a room that looks like a catalog.

I have my own studio. I'm in it all the time.

When I'm in that studio, I feel like I'm the king of the world. If I lose that, I'm going to lose a lot.