Sophie Quotes

I didn't start to work until I realized what it was I had to offer. I stopped imitating performers I admired and started just being myself.

I always try to improve, to find new ways of expressing myself, to keep looking for truth and originality.

I'll never be August Wilson - but what I can be is more of myself.

How I set myself apart is by creating the sort of real and honest music, which is who I'm also trying to be.

The only thing new is you finding out about something. Like nothing's really new, but you reinvent it for yourself and find your inner voice.

You just get out there and be what you want to be. That's part of evolving and part of staying true to yourself - part of remaining alive in a real authentic, long-term sense creatively: not listening to what other people tell you to be.

When you're younger, you want to project an image of yourself through your work, but now, I just want to make something honest.

I don't feel I have to be Jackson Browne. Still, I like to say something.

The creative process has been a little bit of an experience, really - to try and make that work for me. The only way I know how to do that is just to remain genuine, humble, and true to everything I know already in my life.

For me, the best way to be as an artist is to be completely yourself, letting that vulnerability come through.

My music just stands for being true to who you are.

The road to enlightenment is paved with authenticity, not imitation.

You've got to be oblivious to other people, the push and pull of other people's opinions, the way other people measure success. It's then that you realize you are 100 percent who you are and you have to use that who-you-are 100 percent in order to create great things.

The function of education is to help you from childhood not to imitate anybody, but be yourself all the time.

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

So many people go through life, and they never deal with their own issues, no matter what the issues are - ours happen to be gender identity. But, how many people go through life and just waste an entire life 'cause they'd never deal with themselves to be who they are.

People always tell me, 'Reinvent yourself, re-this, re-whatever.' I haven't reinvented myself. It's an honest evolution. I've always been authentic.

If you do not express your own original ideas, if you do not listen to your own being, you will have betrayed yourself.

It's a little silly to finally learn how to write at this age. But I long ago realized I was secretly sincere.

No age is compelled to take its beauty from preceding epochs.

It is when I am working that the real me comes out - that is when I am the most real and honest.

Life is the most versatile thing under the sun; and in the pursuit of life and character the author who works in a groove works in blinkers.

Find out who you are and be that person. That's what your soul was put on this Earth to be. Find that truth, live that truth and everything else will come.

My interest lies in my self-expression - what's inside of me - not what I'm in.

I never reflect or convey that which I have not experienced myself.