Jim Hodges Quotes

My work is has always been very, very personal.

My work is intensely personal.

Which implies that the real issue in art is the audience's response. Now I claim that when I make things, I don't care about the audience's response, I'm making them for myself. But I'm making them for myself as audience, because I want to wake myself up.

I have never done films to prove a point to anyone; I have done them for myself.

All my collections are based on something I like or something I'm dealing with. They are always deeply personal.

Only work which is the product of inner compulsion can have spiritual meaning.

Recording is more autobiographical than acting. It's me - either how I'm feeling then or once felt at some point in my life. It's all me.

The people in my songs are all me.

Songwriting helps me sort out my personal problems. With acting, you're just a tool for someone's ideas.

I like writing, but I write for self-improvement more than I do for money.

My work is about my life, and what I want to do with it.

It's not like during your normal day, anyone says, 'How do having meaning in your life? How do you make meaning in your life?'

I essentially write for myself.

I think writers write for their consciences, they write for their own true audiences, for their souls.

If I had one wish for my children, it would be that each of them would reach for goals that have meaning for them as individuals.

I wanted to say to myself as much as anyone else that we made art.

When I was a teenager I loved acting, but I really just loved it for myself. I didn't like the fact that anyone else saw the work I was doing. When I moved to New York, I started to realize that I wanted people to see the stuff that I was doing, and I wanted it to mean something to them.

I feel like everything I make is personal to me.

I work as an artist, and I think the audience of one, which is the self, and I have to satisfy myself as an artist. So I always say that I write for the same people that Picasso painted for. I think he painted for himself.

I just believe that the way that young people's minds develop is fascinating. If you are doing something for a grade or salary or a reward, it doesn't have as much meaning as creating something for yourself and your own life.

I feel the emotion that life conjures up and the songs I write get me closer to my feelings and realising who I am. It's a natural process.

I feel like my music at least allows me to release the other side of me, a more vulnerable and sensitive side.

The things I do outside of playing the piano are done out of an inner necessity, not just because I want to try my hand at different things.

I think the biggest reward is not physical. I rather obtain things spiritually. I mean, it's so cool to be acknowledged by the public, but that's not my goal. That's not why I make music. I would do it anyway, if there was no reward.

It's not art for art's sake, it's art for my sake.