Chris Robinson Quotes

The individual - man as a man, man as a brain, if you like - interests me more than what he makes because I've noticed that most artists only repeat themselves.

I try to say something about the human condition whenever I can when I'm lucky.

Some day I'm gonna be gone and people will be listening to my songs and conjuring me up. In order for that to happen, you gotta put something of yourself in it.

My lyrics come from my experiences growing up in life, trying to find out and express who I am. That's basically it. I'm not trying to be a prophet or anything like that. I'm just reflecting on life.

Sometimes you want to make your own experiences.

If I could have a record that represents every stage of my life, I'd be putting out one a month. Everything is always changing, and so is the way that I feel about stuff.

Years from now, after I'm gone, someone will listen to what I've done and know I was here. They may not know or care who I was, but they'll hear my guitars speaking for me.

I don't want to look back at my career and see a string of incredibly commercial projects that don't have much heart. I'm looking for things that have soul.

I've done a lot of collaboration over the years, but right now I'm enjoying writing by myself and just being me again for a while.

There's a lot of reflection that goes on whenever I write a song - it's been a wild whirlwind last couple of years and there's a lot to talk about, and hopefully that's evident in the music.

Finally, everything that has been part of my life, whether I wanted it to or not, has expressed itself in my dresses.

Before I wasn't sure what I wanted to say, but now, I have had so many different experiences that they have given me what I want to get across in my music.

I don't think one moment in somebody's life is going to define them.

I think each role takes a little from you and circles around you for the rest of your life. I don't think you ever abandon any of them.

We all have experiences in our lives that change us, and we all learn from people, like my dad, but at the end of the day, it's only us. And we're only responsible to make ourselves happy.

Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.

When I go back and read my journals or fiction, I am always surprised. I may not remember having those thoughts, but they still exist and I know they are mine, and it's all part of making sense of who I am.

My writing has a lot to do with who I am, and what my life is like, and my relationships to people.

One of the purposes of life, and selfishly what makes people happy, is building things that are impactful.

Whatever I'm writing comes organically out of my life.

The more I do in my life, the more I can write music about new experiences.

Well, you know, it's been interesting because an album is just a snapshot of where you are at that time. Not all pictures of everybody are just in jeans and a 'T' shirt, or a ball gown. You have many different sides and this is a snapshot of where you are at that time.

Everyone has their own different life experiences which make them who they are. No two people's life experiences are the same. And mine are just unique to me.

For many people, I was a phase, a part of the period of growing up. People ask me why I connected. It was presumptuous of me to say, but I'm Everyman. The difference is I put my thoughts into words.

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.