Jermaine Fowler Quotes

Ever since I was a little girl music was my escape and it was something that I did and was a huge part of me; aside from what my grades were in school. It was something that was truly mine.

Strangely, I feel that I become increasingly reclusive in my normal life and more open and candid in my music.

I'm a compulsive musician, but it's also a bloody good way out of having to do anything else.

Everybody thinks I'm, like, a bad boy. I've had my day, but I just sit at home and play the blues mostly.

Music kept me off the streets and out of trouble and gave me something that was mine that no one could take away from me.

Martina's gone with people who don't want to be out, and it drives her crazy because she'd rather be open.

I have the feeling of being a very small item on this planet, and literature enables me to express that.

When I come home, I'm just Maisie, and everywhere I go, I'm just Maisie!

I wanted to be a cheerleader, like my sister was - all the most popular and beautiful girls are cheerleaders and I wanted that, and it demolished this vision of myself. That's when I found the piano, when music saved me; that's when I first attempted to write my own songs.

Sometimes I'll lock myself in a room and dance. I'll turn music on as loud as possible and just get weird!

I began to feel whatever narrow space I had in Saudi Arabia was getting narrower. I thought it would be better to get out and be safe.

I've spent most of my life in prison. I was a prisoner of my fear and my low self-esteem.

If it weren't for singing, I don't know what else I would do with myself.

There's a lot of music in my life, and I found it a very important part of my life.

I've been writing a lot of songs about my personal life and identity. That can be a real healing process.

Music helped me, growing up: it very much felt like a companion and made me less lonely.

I wouldn't want to be in one room, 20 hours a day, 52 weeks a year, with four white walls and a stove. I think it stunts your growth as a human being.

Faced with ostracization at school and confinement at home, I turned to karaoke.

For me, when I went through my depression, I always felt like I was alone, and because people never understood me, I had to shut myself out from the world. Art and music was the only thing that could ever help me get over that.

For being a bad student I was banished to the 'calaboose' - a bare cell with whitewashed walls and a bench to sit on. I liked it there, because I took along a sketch pad and drew incessantly I could have stayed there forever drawing without stopping

I wasn't thriving socially, so I stayed in my room and played guitar all the time.

Perhaps I write for no one. Perhaps for the same person children are writing for when they scrawl their names in the snow.

Being myself didn't work. Being someone else didn't work. Maybe I just wasn't meant to have friends.

We hide ourselves in our music to reveal ourselves

There is nothing of which we are more ashamed than of not being ourselves. And there is nothing which brings us greater joy and happiness than to think, feel, and say what is ours.