Fergie Quotes

Everyone has their own journey, and for me, going from singing background to writing songs has truly opened doors for me and has also helped me find myself as an artist in terms of what I want to say and the style of music I want to have.

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.

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 didn't start singing and writing songs properly until I was 19.

I think rap was a better move for me but football's been my love since I learned how to walk. I was gonna be a running back or quarterback. That was my life. That was it but things happen for a reason. I wouldn't trade this in for nothing.

I think that new artistic challenges help you grow both as a person, as an artist, and then they feed back into your other work, and tend to magnify it.

College had a great deal to do with my development as a person. I don't know if I'd be the artist I was if it wasn't for goin' to school like that. School is a good place - it ain't for everybody, but I think it's for most people.

At first you're doing it for yourself, it's about what sounds good to you. It's about expressing yourself. Then you get comfortable as an artist and you find yourself and people get familiar.

I love develop as an artist, to push my envelope, to grow, to make mistakes, to learn from them and to try and be the very best that I can be while I'm on this earth.

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

When I turned 19 I kinda realized that I needed to write my own songs instead of singing songs written by other people.

You don't have that much choice in your life, which is one of the big lessons I've learned. I was going to be a designer whether I wanted to be a designer or not.

Only by joy and sorrow does a person know anything about themselves and their destiny. They learn what to do and what to avoid.

Over the years, I was never really driven to become a solo artist, but I was curious to find out who I was as an individual creative person. It's taken some time, but now I feel I've truly paid my dues. I guess I'm at a point now where I'm more comfortable in my own skin.

Mos Def is a name that I built and cultivated over the years it's a name that the streets taught me a figure of speech that was given to me by the culture and by my environment and I feel I've done quite a bit with that name and it's time to expand and move on.

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.

You grow and evolve and as you do that, your art hopefully reflects that change and that growth.

My songwriting has evolved, just as I've evolved as a person.

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 never imagined I'd be a solo artist. And now I couldn't imagine being part of a group.

I really think I've found me finally in the music. You know, I had put an album out before, 'Embrace Me,' and it's been seven years since that. So I was discovering who I was. And I still am discovering, but I think now I know a little bit more of who I am. So that's what's pushing me.

There is also a need that each should understand where he came from and what he is -- and what will become of him.

I'm still finding myself as an artist. I'm still experimenting a little bit.

Not to get too sort of mystical, but I believe in fate. I believe when roles are presented to me in my life they're for a very specific reason, something for me to learn.