Jason Isbell Quotes

Having kids sets a bomb off in your life. It really makes you examine who you are, what you believe in and what you want to be. And that is magical for creativity.

To go somewhere where nobody knows you, and to keep your eyes open... That was a beautiful concept in terms of putting yourself in a place to be inspired.

The more I do in my life, the more I can write music about new experiences.

I'm older and wiser, but I still dream of doing new things and creating new things.

The part of the process that's exciting to me is feeling like I'm in a place I've never been before, in every way. Without that, I don't know if I'd be a writer.

With beauty, I think one never finishes it. I'm always exploring. I like the concept of change.

'Birdman' came from a very beautiful side of me, from a part of honesty and surrender about things.

Every man can transform the world from one of monotony and drabness to one of excitement and adventure.

At the age of 80, I'm becoming a visual artist. This could be my rebirth.

I left Jamaica for a while, because as an artist I need to experience different things, see the world, have different energies. Living in one place is not good for me.

One of the things that's been nice about my career is that I've been able to do so many different things, and variety keeps your creative soul fulfilled. I'm constantly looking to find new things to do. It's just project to project for me. You never know where the next thing's going to come from.

That's like the greatest experiences of my life still, 'Friends,' so it's not something I want to get away from, but I do want to try and show something new.

The stage sharpened my creative instrument and encouraged me to go deeper and try new things.

I always try to keep the circumstances in my life fresh. I like to change the physical environment I live in, change the people around me and try to experience things for the first time. I think that keeps one on their toes, creatively and spiritually.

I love how people in this business push themselves to know themselves, the world, and their creativity better.

It never gets boring for me because there's so many different things to explore in the studio. The studio's become the sanctuary that people have come in and found new things out about themselves, as weird as that sounds. But it's true, I'm no different. I've made some crazy hard records, and I've made a jazz album.

You have to really use your imagination to refresh your daily life.

As I enter a new phase of life and my circle broadens, I start learning new things.

I'm interested in what's new. I'm interested in change. I'm interested in a different game in life.

The story of 'Lasers' is my story. I didn't have to look too far to get subject matter for this record; it was stuff that was happening to me.

I like any story that starts one place and really takes a huge journey to a whole new place; that people in their life want to take that journey. They want to be able to find things in their life that aren't working and work through them to a new place of change.

I feel like every five to seven years I really need to put myself in this position of discomfort and exploration, just to survive. Otherwise I feel like I'm falling asleep, like I'll go crazy if I don't do it.

There were always moments where I'd say, 'What else can I do with my life?' But when I was 30 years old and discovered I could write - I wrote 'Black Cloud' in six weeks - it opened up a whole new world for me.

I don't want to get stale. I'm always interested in new things.

I can't imagine not being in a phase where I'm trying to understand something or create something. That's the essence of life.