Eric Nam Quotes

The reason I put make-up on or wear the costume is to try and find my own style. It's like my guitar style - I'm just trying to be an original artist.

To be a true artist, I have to be true to who I am now and write that way.

The whole point in developing your own style is to find your own voice.

I'm starting to find my own style.

I had to find my own language in jewelry. That was important to me; it really had to be what I would love to have myself.

To me, what makes an artist is a unique personality that they're not afraid to let show.

I'm now able to show who I am as an artist.

I'm just trying to be myself - make music how I make music.

Art is such a personal experience, I really try to make my own thing.

Express yourself through your art - whether it’s your drawings in a sketchpad, tattoos on your skin, the shade of your lipstick, or the clothes that you wear.

Follow your heart, and your pleasure in art. Don’t do what you think is going to be making you money, or what you’re parents want you to do, or what that beautiful girl or guy thinks you should be doing. Do what you love. It’s going to lead to where you want to go. Go out there and make the world more beautiful. I know you can.

I used to sing like Nat King Cole. I mean he was the guy when I was comin' up, and you know, man, people used to say of me, "Damn, he sure do sound like Nat King Cole." But there was a day, and luckily for me it was early, when I woke up and asked myself, "Well, when are the ask me to sing because I sound like me?" So my advice is, never do anything that you don't like.

I feel like the point of being an artist is to have your own voice: to do it the way you would do it and not the way anyone else would do it. If you're a strong enough writer, then that voice is going to come out all the time, and I can't stop it from coming out, no matter what I do.

I feel like it's important, especially at young age, to find exactly what it is that makes your style so important as opposed to just trying to fit into the iconic styles of performers out there.

Music is such an intensely personal thing for me, and I knew if I was going to do it, it would be in my own way.

It does not matter how badly you paint so long as you don't paint badly like other people.

I feel, as an artist, I should be able to express who I am and the things I come from, and the places I want to also be.

I never wanted to be that fad type of artist. When I looked up to artists, watching TV, I wanted to see somebody. I wanted to touch that person. I wanted to sound like them. I wanted to move like them. That' s what I want my fans to do. So that's why, everything that I do, the music I make, how I dress, it's all based off my lifestyle.

There's no way to describe what I do. It's just me.

I associate creativity with independent music.

Doing acting opened up other creative outlets; it made me feel freer as an artist.

The only thing I want to be defined by is my music and personality.

The only people who have doubts about the sincerity of my music are people who come to it relatively late, off the back of having seen me in a film. Acting is about being other people, and music is about being myself.

If people want to know who I am, it is all in the work.

I've never tried to be anything but me. Even with Slipknot, where it can almost feel like a roll sometimes, it's still a part of who I am. It's a very strong and passionate part of who I am, and I'm lucky enough to have an audience that is really open to what I do.