Jacob Collier Quotes

I didn't come to Hollywood to be subservient to anyone else's vision.

Very few artists are as independent as I am mentally, physically, spiritually and technically. I sit in my home studio and record things by myself. I don't need to get anybody's approval or validation.

I don't necessarily love all the collaborations that I've done; the more I work with other people, the more I realize that I want to work with myself.

My art and my creativities were totally something that was of my own heart and mind. I could never let anybody dictate to me what I should write and how I would write it.

My music has always been my solo project.

I never think about what others are doing. I do a film for myself, not others.

My job is to just express something that I want to express. And if I'm ahead or behind the curve, that's for others to decide.

I won't work on anyone's else's script. I won't write for anyone else. I write my own stuff and make that when the time is right.

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

I don't want to use my creative energy on somebody else's user interface.

Most artists like to think of themselves as rugged individualists, as independent characters.

The ultimate thing is creating your own stuff and making projects for yourself. That's what Seth Rogen does. He's writing and producing a lot of the movies that he's the lead in.

I do love being solo because I can have more of my own creative input to every aspect of my career.

It was important that I got my own voice out there in the world. I'd used it on other people's films, collaborated, and I thought, 'You know, I can do this myself.' That was more important than anything else.

I try not to think of myself in any category, and I don't ever really try to imagine myself competing with another actor. I just know I want to do the things that I would want to see, and I know the things that turn me on, whether it's on the stage, or it's a play or a film. I just kind of want to keep doing my own thing.

My stuff is my stuff. I do it for my own reasons, using my own peculiar set of guidelines.

If you paint a picture and I paint a picture, we each want to do it our own way. And we'll stand or fall on whatever we did.

Everything I've performed has been from my own head.

I don't see myself in competition with anyone, I am in my own space; I don't follow anyone, though I appreciate good work always.

When I can make music and don't have to think about anyone else's ideas or voice - when I'm making something that only I can make - it feels good. It's nice when you can find a sound that only you can make. No one else can make 'Cosmogramma.' No one else can make 'Until the Quiet Comes.'

I want to be my own artist and reflect my creativity.. I don't want to be turned into a pop princess; that's not who I am.

There's nobody like The B-52s. But doing stuff on my own, I can also express more personal songs.

I am very much my own person and my own artist.

I'm my own writer. My material means I'm entirely separate.

Never ask for approval in your work. Life is your own, inspiration is your own, you create alone, and the results are your own - and that's good enough.