Jack Garratt Quotes

I've never recorded anything I didn't like.

I'm very serious about what I write and who I allow to produce the music, because I want to make sure it's a true album, and not just something pushed out there to create hype and more fame for myself.

My approach is to be part of a band that makes music, not hit songs.

I'd rather not make films than make bad ones.

I've never put out a song that I wasn't completely proud of and that I didn't love. In that sense, I've never felt like I sold out in any way.

I don't sing songs on albums that I don't like.

It doesn't matter even if I am slow or fast as long as my films are honest and carries my integrity.

The people at the label were great but at the end of the day our visions didn't match up and I knew I had to do it my way. The potential success that could come with signing with a major label didn't quite outweigh how important it was for me to make my music the way I knew it needed to be made. It was a hard decision to make, but I've never regretted it for a second and it's only become more clear to me after making and releasing Stairwells that it was the right one.

It's a simple formula for me now, I don't play any song I don't want to play.

I've never believed in cheapening music by going according to what some people think is public taste.

I want to make music that I like; not something that I have to make because I think it's going to sell.

I've never been the type of person to jump up and throw out the album without it being what it's supposed to be.

The fun thing about song writing is that it's just creative. It can be whatever you want it to be. For me, I'm really protective of that. I'm not going to write something because I feel like it fits here or it fits there - I just want to write music that feels good to me, you know?

I'm very particular about the kind of music that I record and sing, and it would be the same way about the kind of movies that I would do.

All I can do is focus on staying true to the style of music I write and sing because that is the only way it's going to come off as honest.

I used to get in trouble with my old agent, because I've never been driven by fear or need or greed. I want my work to represent me as a person, so I can be quite fussy.

I don't really look at the charts at all. If anything, I try to out-do what I've done before. I try to make music that I like and I trust my own judgement with what will work with a wider audience. If you compare yourself to the charts, you lose perspective on what you're doing and why you're doing it.

I wasn't interested in writing music that wasn't beautiful for me to listen to.

If you say, 'I'm going to cut this song because I know the teenagers are going to love it,' well, then you're going to alienate everybody else. When I cut my record, I'm just going to cut the things that I like, and whoever likes it, likes it. That's too much work to try to figure out the demographic. That's too much like a business.

They say I'm insane because I need to have so much creative control. They say I'm unmanageable, but I'm not. I just know what I like. I'm obsessed with it. If you can't control it, that's like having somebody else paint your pictures. How could you do that? I never could.

Generally, when a record label suggests album ideas for you, you smile politely, and then proceed to shoot it down, because it's never what you as an artist feel is right for you.

I just want to give people the best album that I possibly can.

I wouldn't record any song that I didn't like.

I like Modest Mouse. I'm our biggest fan. And enemy. I won't waste people's time by putting out a Modest Mouse record just because. That's fair, right?

When you make a solo record, it's you. It's your name. It has to be the right songs for how you feel.