Chet Faker Quotes

Strive for excellence, not perfection.

I think it was Duke Ellington who once said that we're always most pleased with our current record. I mean, you have to assume that you learn from one, and you do something better next time.

I've never, ever in my life enjoyed playing live the way I am now.

And being away and not performing for a long time and really connecting with my audience for a long time, I have a great responsibility to myself and to them to do it exactly the way the process was when I was young.

Excellence is the gradual result of always striving to do better.

It's interesting to watch myself with an audience; I'm trying hard to learn from it.

I've never been happy with the quality of my work. I always felt as though my musicianship was lacking and that I should have worked harder at it when I was younger. As I sang and sang, I improved.

I'm getting to a point where everything is becoming streamlined in my life. I'm learning how to stand onstage for two hours and play in front of thousands of people as if I am completely in the moment every moment.

You learn if you mind stay open. And once you can't learn no more, your mind must be closed. Life goes on and you keep growing, you know?

It took me two years to walk around a chair with ease; it took me another two years to learn how to laugh onstage - and I had to learn everything.

How do I feel when I look back at prior work? Hmmm. I think, 'I tried to do the best I could do. It's not perfect. It will never be perfect.' And then I think, 'I want to try again.'

I'll never be satisfied with where my game is. I always think I can get better.

We're always wanting to get better. I'm very much a perfectionist.

There are always things we can still learn to perfect.

I was at a slight disadvantage in that I had never played in bands or done any performances before, and that's just as important as writing, recording, and putting records out. It's been a lot of hard work, balanced with a lot of pinch-myself moments of touring in crazy parts of the world.

I always try to make my next song better than the last.

Most good work is a combination of parts you love and parts you could do better. My constant mantra is, 'Next time, next time, next time.'

I think you can improve on everything; you're never perfect.

I don't feel like congratulating myself, because I know there's still a lot of room for improvement.

Working toward perfection is not a one time decision but a process to be pursued throughout one's lifetime.

The live show allows me to transcend myself, because it's not about me anymore. The writing process is very much about me but then the live show is not. They feel really different.

Just keep going. Everybody gets better if they keep at it.

Perfection does not exist -- you can always do better and you can always grow.

I started lip-synching with "Losing My Religion." There were a few horrendous mistakes we made, but I own those mistakes. I'm embarrassed by them. I always say when I look back at anything I've ever done, it's with equal dollops of humiliation and triumphant glory.

There are no laurels in life, just new challenges.