James Acaster Quotes

I dropped out of college and started gigging around Brighton.

When I graduated college, I had a fairly successful weekly club gig and was buying more studio equipment and writing my own music. I realized I didn't want to work.

I always wanted to be an artist; being a songwriter for myself was always a must but being a songwriter for others has been a bonus.

I was never somebody who grew up going, 'I really want to be a singer in a band,' and I never had any ambition toward anything, really.

I'm a performance artist first; I'm a recording artist second.

I wanted to be a pianist but it just wasn't my thing. I guess I wanted to stand up rather than sit down.

I dropped out of college when I was 18 to be in a band.

I'm a singer and as long as I can sing - which, thank God, is something that I still seem to be able to do - I'd like to carry on making records.

I want to do music the rest of my life.

I been doing music my whole life.

It would be a dream come true if I could just go from studio to studio and play solos.

I'd like to do something that involves music.

I love Hootie & the Blowfish and what we do, but that's not my main focus anymore.

I got a sociology degree and then had an opportunity to go to graduate school. But I said no, because I wanted to give songwriting a shot.

I have always wanted to become a musician and a singer.

I love performing, and I love the idea of people buying records. I don't particularly like the idea of people knowing me or thinking they do, but that's a part of what I choose. I choose not to go to college; I choose to be a singer.

Some guys dig ditches, I have a band. It's what I do

My whole game plan, at first, was I wanted to rock out as hard as I could because usually you're old by the time you're 24.

For someone like me, music is all I've ever thought about - playing big shows, and then, when you take something that is based around your music and put it in a completely different medium, it's a really interesting and cool emotion to watch.

I've been doing music for the longest time.

I made that decision around the time of 'Halloween,' whether I wanted to continue trying to be a singer and rock and roll player or get into movies.

In America, you can't say to your family, 'Hey, I'm off to L.A. to make it as a songwriter; sorry I can't pay for the dentist.'

A lot of people put out an album, and you never hear from them again. They're working a day job or doing whatever to survive through life.

Really, my biggest risk was just the initial step to quit my day job to do music. I was packaging and shipping for an art gallery in Manhattan; I went to school for painting, so I always wanted to work around artwork, even though I wasn't really contributing anything to the scene.

Music is what I always dreamed of doing. But at a certain point in my career, they convinced me to act, and that started me acting.