Jim James Quotes

I'm doing things that are more artistic again, more close to the material that I love. I don't disparage those things that I did. They're just not as much reflective of who I am.

I have done a lot of work internally to find out who I am, what voice Eamonn Walker has and how he wants to put it out there.

All my songs are where I am.

Worthy or not, my life is my subject, and my subject is my life.

My work is has always been very, very personal.

If you write something that's personal, there's going to be elements of yourself in it.

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

My lyrics come from my experiences growing up in life, trying to find out and express who I am. That's basically it. I'm not trying to be a prophet or anything like that. I'm just reflecting on life.

There are different sides to me; I wanted to make a personal film but I would not want to make any film that does not reflect me in it. At least, not right now. I'm just too young to be doing that.

I don't know what else I would be if I wasn't me. I am not looking from the outside, looking back. I am who I am.

I am my own experiment. I am my own work of art.

In some ways it's taken me decades to come clean and make honest work - and still to this day, sometimes I find myself wanting to hide behind my work and deny the more biographical aspects.

What I am doing is not acting. I am playing myself.

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

With every role that I do, I always see a little bit of me, a little bit of art and life.

You're lucky if you find something that makes you feel like yourself; that's the one time that you feel like you know who you are. Most people are struggling to find that out all the time.

I'm now able to show who I am as an artist.

My music is a whole reflection of who I'm as an individual.

I'm not really interested in myself in my writing. I can't see myself in the songs, even though I know different parts of me are there.

I want people to see just who I am.

However, I've learned in my life that life is about living authentically. And for me, the best moments as I look back in my life, that I became the best versions of Jeannie that I'm proud of, was when I was honest with myself.

I have never regarded myself as this or that. I have been too busy being myself to bother about regarding myself.

He has found his style, when he cannot do otherwise.

My act is based on my life.

What you are is a question only you can answer.