Flume Quotes

With each film, I try to outdo my previous films.

I love stretching myself musically.

What drives me is to still feel creative and like I'm pushing myself as an artist.

I guess to just keep playing music; to just keep outdoing the last record.

In fact, most artists want to make things a bit more difficult for themselves as they go along, to challenge themselves.

I learned so many roles so quickly as a young singer, I thought it was time to come back to them and make them better - deeper, more nuanced.

What I'm hoping is that every album I'm going to do will give my audience something different, and that they'll grow as I do.

I want to be the kind of artist who keeps pushing on every album. I don't want to settle on a sound.

I'm just trying to up my films - how every film should be better than the previous one. That's what I struggle for.

'Tongue' is literally just one piece of the puzzle. This album is something I've worked on over the course of my entire career and something I've been discovering myself in it.

My time at Berklee College of Music was probably my greatest period of artistic growth and internalisation.

Every artist was first an amateur.

I think, like any artist, those baby songs are not the best things you've ever written, but they count because they're you're first attempts at creating art and expressing yourself.

I think any kind of hiatus one takes in an artistic journey is going to make a huge difference. The pause will inform the choices that you make.

I always feel like out of every session that I do, whether it's a record session or even a concert, I like to think that there was something in there that I didn't do before. That's my goal.

Nothing prepares you for making art except making art. You have to do it to get better.

I really started writing music to challenge myself, to see what I could write.

My favorite artists are the ones that I can take their eight or ten albums, and I can see the arc of their life.

People forget that, as artists, you are constantly looking to evolve and grow.

I feel like my music has become a lot of things. It's hard to label the evolution, but I like there to be an evolution. I just like to paint with all different kinds of colors.

The thing is, if you're a designer, then you want to constantly push yourself and your designs.

I've played the Greek classics; I've played the English classics. I promise you, I'm not complacent, because I hope to be playing all sorts of stuff that I've never played before while the mind - and the body - still functions.

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

You hope to be a part of something that makes you a better artist when you leave.

Every time you learn a new language, your understanding of language overall grows, so every time I would learn new music, my understanding of music would grow because I was taken to an extreme in a different direction, and that was, in effect, carrying over into what I do.