Jessica Sanchez Quotes

Writing is a subtle art that is reached mostly by self-discovery and experimentation.

Every time you come out with an album or a song, you want to feel like you're growing a bit in what you are and giving people something that they can feel.

Just going through a lot in my life, becoming more confident in myself, writing my own music and just really getting in the studio and just doing it.

With acting, I started as a kid and it was my safe space and the place where I felt the most free to be all of myself. What gets explored in our show is where that instinct starts and where it meets with career, and how that can change your path a bit.

I'm still getting to the good part / the breaking down / learning how to write my story.

I have a firm faith in art, a firm confidence in its being a powerful stream which carries a man to a harbor, though he himself must do his bit too.

I just think that when you've been singing for 30 years, which I have been, you just want to find different things you can do with your voice. It's a constant journey. It's not like any one album that you make is who you are. It just reflects that particular day.

Sometimes for a lot of new artists, they don't have a vision, really, or know what they want to say; it's kind of drawn out for them. But me, because I'm such a transcendental thinker, it's always like a journey and an adventure with each project. It's like going through a different doorway each time.

I've been through a lot, both personally and professionally, and the album that I started to record two and a half years ago is a different album from the one that exists today. I even changed the album title. First it was 'All I Want is Everything,' and now it's 'Jumping Trains.'

I began observing, making paintings of my surroundings, taking a vow of silence, listening, composing music, writing, and making time for formal education. Then I started telling stories.

I want to write, I want to sing. I want to do the same thing for others, have my music, hopefully do that for others one day, not realizing what I sort of had to climb. I had an idea a little bit, but I think that I underestimated the whole thing.

I have been taking every step toward the future every day through making many paintings and sculptures with my deep emotion hidden in my life.

A Tribe Called Quest was one of those things where it was supposed to be about growth. When I say 'growth,' I don't just mean with our sound or our product, but Tribe was supposed to grow as individuals.

Being an artist, it's all a journey, and you learn where the subtle patterns lie.

My dream is to one day just be me and my guitar. I'm working myself to the core. Who am I, underneath everything else? I'm still on that journey, to find that core.

I think it's natural for an artist to explore as they evolve.

I know how I want to operate as an artist. And that is by having an honest, genuine dialogue about this kind of screwed up journey I've had that I'm so thankful for.

It took me a long time to find my voice as a singer, and I'm happy that I did.

I want to solidify as an artist and show that as I grow as a person and make mistakes and learn from them, I'm going to grow artistically.

I always wanted to be an artist, writer and poet since I was seven, and one has to live long enough to evolve as an artist and do one's finest work.

I always thought of myself as a later bloomer, so I like some of my work more later than earlier.

I can look back over my earlier music, and it takes me back to the place I was emotionally.

Over the years, my art box has gotten bigger and bigger.

Artistic development made me who I am. Somebody took the time to help me find what it is that works for me as an entertainer and who I am as a music maker.

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