Tom Jenkinson Quotes

No age is compelled to take its beauty from preceding epochs.

The most important thing for me as an artist is having an identity.

You can only write your own vision.

You should have the opportunity to be more than one person with different people because you have that within you. It's not like you're faking it. If everyone knows you so well and can always get a hold of you, then you're stuck to this thing that people think you are. You should have the opportunity to reinvent yourself. Because you do. Naturally.

When you're an artist, all you're trying to do is self-express.

I feel, as an artist, I should be able to express who I am and the things I come from, and the places I want to also be.

I needed freedom to really express myself. That's really what Justified is about.

There's more pressure to be famous for being yourself than if you're being a character.

The whole point in developing your own style is to find your own voice.

Art is about the 'I' in life not the 'we', about private life rather than public. A public life that doesn't acknowledge the private is a life not worth having.

The only thing I want to be defined by is my music and personality.

I don't think the goal is, 'How big a star did you ever become?' I think the goal is, 'Were you able to express yourself?'

The one thing that you have that nobody else has is you. Your voice, your mind, your story, your vision. So write and draw and build and play and dance and live as only you can.

That's that Dungeon Family ethos: being able to reinvent yourself, stand out and stand alone. Having your own character and having your own image, no matter what they say about you. I want to show my versatility and how diverse I am, how I approach the track, my rhythm, my melodies. It's something different.

I have to be able to be the artist that I am.

If people want to know who I am, it is all in the work.

I think that I've just kind of found my niche, if that makes sense. I still write the same, but I feel like I've found what separates me, and I always try to stay in that when I write. It took me a long time to discover that, so I try to be protective.

I didn't really even think of recording under my own name for a long time. I thought, 'I've got the rest of my life to do that.'

I care about being creative and expressing myself.

I'm just trying to work out a way to be a singer and to create cool content. I'm willing to do that as an entertainer. But I'm not willing to give up my actual self.

I want to represent my name to the fullest: Ginuwine.

I was kind of nervous to put 'Learning' out: it's a lot different. That's who I am. I'm going to push the boundaries.

Whatever big movie I work in, ultimately my concern is my personality. I make sure that I keep it up.

I'm now able to show who I am as an artist.

I think that if a writer doesn't use her voice, be it in her writing or online or in real life, then what is the point of having one?