St. Lucia Quotes

For me, making music is a continuous learning experience, and I think that it feeds itself.

In life we try to grow and better ourselves. As an artist, I feel like I've grown tremendously.

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

Writing 'Monitor Mix' was a very edifying and inspiring few years.

As an artist, you keep learning. You draw out different parts of you.

I've been adjusting to what it means to be a songwriter, figuring out what I like about it and what I don't like about it and what it means to me as opposed to other people.

I view making records as a journey.

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

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.

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 movie I make teaches me something. That's why I keep making them.

It's a great challenge and a wonderful journey how to figure out how to be an artist and to carve my way.

I don't believe that a writer does something wonderful spontaneously. I believe it's the result of years of living, of study, reading, his very personality and temperament. At one particular moment, all these come together and the artist 'expresses' himself.

It's really such a personal journey, making a record, but even more so writing the songs.

Designers and musicians are primed to keep thinking forward. Once an album or collection launches, you can only think about doing the next one.

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.

When I first started making music, I didn't really know what I was doing. I just wanted to write songs. I didn't have a concept. I didn't think it through. I was just flailing around doing what comes naturally. It took me a really long time to step back and deal with what I was doing with any kind of perspective or self-awareness.

So it was just a case of getting a bunch of songs that I had been writing for years but hadn't recorded together, and the result was My Own Best Enemy.

I'm still learning my craft.

I really took filmmaking very seriously... It was an honor and then a crutch also, because at a young age, I was like, I guess I'm a serious filmmaker. I never set out to be a serious filmmaker. I just set out to make movies.

What an artist learns matters little. What he himself discovers has a real worth for him, and gives him the necessary incitement to work.

People say I am stuck in childhood, but it's not that. I remember seeing a Matisse retrospective, and you could see he started out one way, and then he tried something different, and then he seemed to spend his whole life trying to get back to the first thing.

Even though I've been putting out bodies of work for years, 'Beauty Behind the Madness' felt like the beginning.

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

I had no precise plan when I started 'Electronica,' but I think it has been a very positive journey for me.