Isabel Gillies Quotes

I definitely like the oddballs. There's a song called 'Little Thing,' which is the only song that I have recorded that has no words. And it's the one that I get past my critic inside me.

Writing 'February' made me realize that breaking form is a way of letting the song be human.

I write my own lyrics; I can incorporate my own ideas. And yes, apparently, people think it's cool. That's pretty awesome.

Being a songwriter does not rely on an audience or other band members or a camera. I can just sit in a room and write songs.

I publish my own music. I'm creating my own songbook. It works that way for me; I'm very independent.

It's not how big your pencil is; it's how you write your name.

With my voice and my band, I can do anything.

I've been really trying to hone the art of songwriting in a way that doesn't follow any sort of guideline.

Acting is awesome, but I'm really, really able to express myself creatively in music.

The blessing of being able to write music and let music speak for itself is you let the melodies and let the lyrics and the groove talk to people instead of me talking to people.

I like producing myself, I like other people producing, I just like it all.

Whether I'm writing for myself or someone else, I'll always write a song that I would feel comfortable singing.

The act of writing a song involves a degree of letting go of yourself, and that's very much being a child.

I found it easier to make up songs than to learn other people's songs.

I am not bothered with whether my characters are conventional or not. Because I am not in this for the designer labels and the autographs.

Nothing competes with the buzz of making your own record.

I am surely happy to be breaking away from the norm when it comes to my songs.

We're past the self-doubt. We just have fun with it and just try to make the best music that we can make.

I'm a songwriter, an artist, and a musician. I do not have to try to be that; I just am.

I wouldn't want to write a song in a pair of sneakers. I think it would be a horrible song.

A sculptor is supposed to be a dull dog anyway, so why should he not break out in colour sometimes, and in my case I'd as soon be hanged for a sheep as a lamb.

No matter what song I recorded or sang, I did it my way.

I always loved writing songs - writing for myself and demo-ing songs, really with no intention of ever letting anyone else hear them. Finally the Foo Fighters stuff happened when I just went to the studio down the street from my house and recorded some stuff in about five or six days, and all these people wanted to release it as an album. I wanted to release it on my own, with no photos and no names on it.

Don't let the fear of not pleasing someone stop you from being creative.

I'll probably never produce a masterpiece, but so what? I feel I have a Sound aborning, which is my own, and that Sound if erratic is still my greatest pride, because I would rather write like a dancer shaking my ass to boogaloo inside my head, and perhaps reach only readers who like to use books to shake their asses, than to be or write for the man cloistered in a closet somewhere reading Aeschylus while this stupefying world careens crazily past his waxy windows toward its last raving sooty feedback pirouette.