Selena Gomez Quotes

The two records are very different. I guess, on the second record, that's more where I was at. Its not that I'm more well-adjusted or anything, it's just that what I wanted to sing about maybe was more the way I wanted to feel.

Albums are like diaries. You go through phases, technically and emotionally, and they reflect the state that you're in at the time.

After touring with David Bowie last year, I was inspired to look at what I wanted to do as an artist, and I realized I wanted to go back to the music I fell in love with when I was eight years old.

I titled the album Reflections because I am reflecting on my music career.

Occasionally, I hanker for the time when I sold more records, but I don't sit and drool about it. When I do look at early footage of Talking Heads, I realise I was just a wreck.

Each film I make changes me in some way. When I start the picture I'm one person and by the time I finish I'm another.

I wear my heart on my sleeve, and whatever I was giving, it was just coming from my natural place at that time. And you know, some albums I've made, I look back and think they were great, and then some I look at, and I think that wasn't right at the time.

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

I started being a songwriter pretending I could do it, and it turned out I could.

It is not about writing those hits again. I am sure I could write them, but it is about the sensibilities.

I've been making music for a long time, since I was very young, but at the same time, I'm still exploring what works for me. I feel like I'm just starting out.

I'm growing as an individual, but your always growing. All of my albums are snapshots of where I am artistically.

That's a part of me going back to what I used to do.

I'm not into watching stuff I did last week, let alone three or four years ago.

I feel like I introduce another level of my creative ability on every album.

I have done some tacky films, but then they were all my decisions, and I'm happy to have made those because they have made me who I am.

Music was something I found on my own. I got my first guitar when I was around 10, and it just all developed over time.

Use the creative process - singing, writing, art, dance, whatever - to get to know yourself better.

Although, I think you look back and you try to learn from your mistakes.

It could be seen as narcissistic to have your own museum, but for me, it's such a long time ago - I have perspective. That young man in the funny clothes - he's almost a stranger, so I can tell his story.

For the last three years, I've been working on 'Bromst,' and that's all that encompassed my brain. And now that it's out, it will change the way that I think musically.

Now you watch reality TV, you watch them in all those pools or Jacuzzis and I say to myself was I that stupid? But that was me then.

My, oh my, how 'Sometimes When We Touch' has travelled since I solemnly wrote my first version at the age of 19.

I'm going to keep on finding out the kind of man I am through my music. That's the one place I can be free. But the reason it's difficult is because I'm changing all the time.

If I had to look at 'Now He Sings'... from outside myself, I see it as a natural part of the growth of the jazz culture, which I've always been so happy - honored, really - to be a small part of.