Jacob Collier Quotes

I prefer to work alone and do everything alone, even today.

The only thing that's better in a group versus being by yourself is the companionship. You have to do a lot of thing by yourself as a solo artist. But it's cool. It's worth it.

Writing on your own is, in a way, a very lonely profession. There's no one there to help you.

I like working by myself.

The writer works in a lonely way.

I have always worked better alone and from my own impressions.

I'm usually - I'm working by myself.

My worst habit in the kitchen is not allowing anybody to help me. I like to cook by myself.

When I was recording music, I'd record all the parts myself, and I wouldn't let other people in; that's essentially what Blood Orange is the result of; me trying to find the most comfortable I can be with everything.

I'm not interested so much in collaboration. You see that from the history of my albums.

My primary lesson, however, was that I'm a solo writer, happiest when I'm making all the executive decisions. I've always been willing to rise or fall on my own merits.

I don't like to direct myself.

I don't have any assistants, I do it all myself, I don't have any secretaries.

Truly, from a very early age, I started distancing myself from other kids, not out of willingness, but just out of the nature of my energy. I liked to do things solely, and I already had a taste of the quest for perfection, which is unusual in a little kid.

For me, I prefer to work on my own. I feel like I can tap into a more genuine place, and I feel like my best stuff comes from writing on my own in my own zone.

There's something to be said in favor of working in isolation in the real world.

When young writers approach me for advice, I remind them, as gently as I can, that they are on their own, with no help available anywhere. Which is how it should be.

I think that with the proliferation of writing programs, people tend to forget that you also have to get used to working alone, and you have to be your own support.

I'm not, by nature, a collaborator. My biggest influences were people like painters and poets. These are solitary workers.

I'm a loner. I kind of like to be alone and do my work and, you know, be focused on my own things.

I think when you work alone - the way I do it, anyway - you could sort of liken it to painting, where there's sort of a one-on-one with the canvas.

It's true that being in an individual sport, you have to be a little bit selfish.

I grew up as an only child, so I like being by myself. So I train predominantly - 98 percent of the time - by myself.

I think most people don't know that I really write everything myself. No help. There's nobody in the studio except for me and the engineer. A lot of people don't think I'm a singer. They think I'm a rapper.

I feel like artists, as much as we'd like to think we're communal, are pretty much loners.