Emm Gryner Quotes

I've been making music for a long time, since I was very young, but at the same time, I'm still exploring what works for me. I feel like I'm just starting out.

Since I was a child, my whole life has revolved around music. It's often while listening to a song that ideas for my fashion collections formed.

I play piano and guitar and I do write my own stuff so to a certain extent I know what I want to do in regards to music. But I'm still finding out what kind of music is my favourite kind to listen to, never mind do myself so I've got a lot of time to find out myself and develop myself as an artist.

People always want to talk about who I was, but I've always been singing, always been experimenting with pop music.

I really haven't strayed too far, musically, from my roots.

It is not about writing those hits again. I am sure I could write them, but it is about the sensibilities.

At the end of the day I want to be the guy who experienced music in all type of ways, with hip-hop being the roots of it.

I was always artistic - right from childhood - but my love of painting came a bit later. It followed my love of music.

For each album, I let the music that I love at that point in my life be my guide.

The way that I've always gone about making music, the rule of thumb, has just been to make what I love.

Music was something I found on my own. I got my first guitar when I was around 10, and it just all developed over time.

Where I've been hasn't influenced my music. It's more what I listen to. You can find music everywhere, so moving hasn't really influenced my music, more me as a person.

For the last three years, I've been working on 'Bromst,' and that's all that encompassed my brain. And now that it's out, it will change the way that I think musically.

Everyone wants to pretend like they sprang out of the ground with an Animal Collective record in their hands and a David Bowie haircut, and that's just not the case. You discover these things gradually.

I'm kind of still learning my voice and learning my style.

Yeah, I put out some goofy stuff. I had no idea who I was as an artist at all before 'Posse on Broadway.'

Strapping Young Lad is a representation of me, just as much as 'Ki,' 'Ghost,' 'Ziltoid' or 'Infinity.' There's no difference; it was just a different period of time.

The idea for 'Midnight Moonlight' was mostly inspired by the moon herself. Advancing from my previous EP 'Moon Shoes,' I felt it necessary to dig a little deeper into who I am and the relationship between my music and the moon.

As someone whose music is connected to his personal growth, I feel an obligation to follow this muse wherever it leads.

Once I tried to find myself as a musician and a composer, I went back and saw that there was something special about Puerto Rican music. I knew that before, but had never sat down and thought about it. The more I learned about it, the more it found its way into the music I was writing.

It took me a long time to find my own voice, even after I started making my own music.

I feel like my music is like - there are always new influences in there.

Black music has increased my enjoyment of what I do. It has increased my range, my ability to reach into myself and accept myself.

Albums are like diaries. You go through phases, technically and emotionally, and they reflect the state that you're in at the time.

I thank the Creator of the universe to have discovered the discipline of music was the greatest gift that I could have been given, the possibility to be a student working in the world.