Janis Joplin Quotes

What most people know about me, they know through my music. This time, I've tried to open that door as wide as possible. These songs are a giant step closer to who I really am and what my music is all about. Hence the title.

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

I look at the artistic process as like experiencing the world, channeling it through your personality and sending it back out there. That's the process.

Every artist makes himself born. It is very much harder than the other time, and longer.

I think it's natural for an artist to explore as they evolve.

When I do my collection, it is in a way my own story.

The writer needs to react to his or her own internal universe, to his or her own point of view. If he or she doesn't have a personal point of view, it's impossible to be a creator.

It was only after I began to write fiction that I found a way to connect with painting.

We all take from our artistic endeavors what we as individuals need, to make the process unique and fulfilling to ourselves.

Joanne' is a progression for me. It was about going into the studio and forgetting that I was famous.

Composing is an emotional thing.

If you're writing for yourself as an artist, you are always pulling on your own experiences.

I feel like, for me as an artist, it takes me a while of living with the tracks and living with the body of work to realize what it's all about.

...start thinking of yourself as an artist and your life as a work-in-progress. Works-in-progress are never perfect. But changes can be made...Art evolves. So does life. Art is never stagnant. Neither is life. The beautiful, authentic life you are creating for yourself is your art. It's the highest art.

Everyone always comes to one point in their life as an artist where you can either let your heart guide you or your ego.

Everything I make starts very personally.

Sometimes for a lot of new artists, they don't have a vision, really, or know what they want to say; it's kind of drawn out for them. But me, because I'm such a transcendental thinker, it's always like a journey and an adventure with each project. It's like going through a different doorway each time.

All my songs are where I am.

Through my films I'm eventually trying to one day tell the truth. I don't know if I'm ever going to get there, but I'm slowly letting pieces of myself out there and then maybe by the time I'm 85, I'll look back and say, 'All right, that about sums it up.'

I am here on Earth to express myself, and the many media of art are my magic carpets that allow me the freedom to do so.

I think I have allowed my voice to experiment with the different genres. And I think that I have just really enjoyed the journey of getting to know my voice and seeing what it's capable of, what it's not capable of.

One of the most important reasons for living is to do something - live outside of yourself and put together an idea, an idea that you want to explore and then complete... Awaken your creative sensitivities!

I was always making things. Even though art was what I did every day, it didn't even occur to me that I would be an artist.

My first album was me finding myself and my voice, finding how I sing. I was rolling with the punches because everything was new to me.

You know, as you compose music, you're just off in your own world. You have no idea where reality is, so to have an idea of what people think is pretty hard.