Isaiah Washington Quotes

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 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.

I can be Erykah the human being more than the celebrity.

Part of the reason that I moved to Los Angeles is that even though my mom introduced me to all kinds of music, I really wanted to work on having my own identify, on being who I am and doing what I do, and seeing how people responded.

My music is 100-percent me, so it's just who I developed into as a woman. I feel really grateful that I waited until I did because I feel like I really found who I was by doing that.

You can't sit around and wait for somebody to say who you are. You need to write it and paint it and do it

I'll never be August Wilson - but what I can be is more of myself.

Music is the medium... how you use the music is different. Everyone use music to a positive light and effect. So it really depends on the individual and one's outlook. My music depicts life in general and the things that I see and the things that influence me, and such forth.

I want to be free... free to develop my art.

But if you have a point of view and you're an artist or a writer, it's kind of crazy to not take advantage of that, especially if you can do something that's entertaining as well. I've done a number of things like that over the years.

I don't define myself as an actor at all. Nor is that my greatest passion in life by any stretch of the imagination.

I never like to think that I design for a particular person. I design for the woman I wanted to be, the woman I used to be, and - to some degree - the woman I'm still a little piece of.

Whatever your image is, it's probably not you, but it affords you the freedom to live up to it.

Your sole contribution to the sum of things is yourself.

To me, searching for perfection isn't anywhere near as interesting as trying to find your own voice.

Tennis helped give me an identity and made me feel like somebody.

I wanted to make the album I always needed to make. I had to say the things I never could.

How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something but to be someone.

An identity would seem to be arrived at by the way in which the person faces and uses his experience.

Singing is just another outlet to express what I feel and to show everyone who I really am. I really don't talk about my personal life that much in interviews because that's my life, but with music, the way I write explains who I am.

I paint and I draw and I write and I do other things too, and recently some people at school were asking if I'd ever publish any of my work. But I almost feel like I would have to publish it under another name because there's a definition of me out there that feels kind of stuck in the moment when it was formed.

We all take from our artistic endeavors what we as individuals need, to make the process unique and fulfilling to ourselves.

When you don't inherit an identity you have to define it on your own.

I enjoy waking up in the morning and thinking, 'Who do I want to be today?'

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.