Jason Isbell Quotes

As a solo artist, my desire is to express myself through my music.

I've always made music that was representative of real life.

When I do music, I do it for me and my fans.

I only do solo albums when songs are screaming at me to be let out of my mind.

An album is such a personal thing. It's something I always wanted to do. It's me doing me, singing as me.

I play guitar and write music, and that's definitely a huge part of my life, but it's my personal thing that I have for me.

If I was writing songs just for me I'd only play them in my living room, alone.

I'd like to make music for as long as I can; it feels like something I need to do.

I have to be my own artist. I need the world to know who I am, especially for music. When it comes to acting, that is a whole other story. I have no complaints; that's a team effort. It's not just me, it's everyone. But when it comes to music, it is solo; that's all me.

I feel like, at the end of the day, I always would try to make music that I wanted to listen to: stuff that I liked and wanted to hear.

Every song that I've done is me in one way or another.

Whenever I release a record, it's my record. It's not a selfish thought. I may work all year 'round for other people. So, finally, when I come out with my own album, it should be me with the creative help of other musicians.

I just always wanted to write my own album and play my own music.

I love making music and I've always been doing that, I just didn't make it commercial.

That's the way I started playing music: just playing guitar by myself in my room when I was a kid, and exploring the guitar and exploring the space I was in, with no project in mind.

I'm a guitar player. I've carved out my own style of guitar music, so I don't look for inspiration with playing guitar.

Songwriting really kicked in with the guitar. I was going through a lot as a kid. There had been a lot of transitions in my family. So it just became a total therapy, like most artists.

I just wanted to express myself and put out music of how I'm feeling - give back to my fans and gain new ones in the process.

I just wanted to release an album of piano music for music's sake. I'm not expecting to sell millions of albums. It's was just nice to be able to sit down at an acoustic piano and make some music.

I'm always working on my own music, too. I've been working on a record for a few years.

After I had my daughter, I kind of got comfortable with motherhood and had time to focus on something else then I started "Sailing Souls" with Fisticuffs, who produced the majority of the mixtape. I just wanted to put out something, like it wasnt really for, you know exposure or to get a deal or really anything like that.

In the end, our way of writing music is a long process of experimentation. We enjoy the luxury of taking this very seriously and giving it the time that it needs.

I write songs, and there is a definite need to express myself through my music.

For making music for myself, I just need to be happy. I'm the producer, the director, and the listener.

Since I was 9 years old, I knew how to make a song. But when I got older, I used it as a way to express myself.