Juliette Lewis Quotes

Don't make music for some vast, unseen audience or market or ratings share or even for something as tangible as money. Though it's crucial to make a living, that shouldn't be your inspiration. Do it for yourself.

I can live for my music, but I don't need to be recognized everywhere.

True artists are almost the only men who do their work for pleasure.

I didn't start making music in order to be famous.

I have to do a show which is of interest to me, or else I'm lost.

I'm confident in my intentions and why I'm making music. I'm not making music because I want to be on your TV screen or the cover of your magazine.

I make music not to make money but because it's in me.

I have never done films to prove a point to anyone; I have done them for myself.

I think the biggest reward is not physical. I rather obtain things spiritually. I mean, it's so cool to be acknowledged by the public, but that's not my goal. That's not why I make music. I would do it anyway, if there was no reward.

I was never in this for the money. It's all about the passion for the music.

Satisfying myself is the point in filmmaking, in my mind.

The deeper I get into my life as a musician, I'm discovering that it becomes less and less about other people, and more about what I want to do. And that's a good place to be.

And the fact that you must make the movie for yourself because no one else will ever fully appreciate the endeavor, makes it a more rewarding challenge.

'Swallow My Gift' is all about music being its own reward. I don't do it to become more famous; I don't do it to make money. I don't do it from an ego-driven point of view.

I create music for myself first of all because if I'm not happy with the music I create, I can't make anybody else happy.

My motivation is not to try to inspire, but rather to do things that inspire me and hopefully that will spread to others.

I enjoy the music I make because I have to - if I didn't, I wouldn't want to make it, and I wouldn't want it to be heard by other people.

I'm just going to keep trying to write music for me because that's what got me here.

I don't make art to make money, I make art so I can make art.

Set me a task in which I can put something of my very self, and it is a task no longer; it is joy; it is art.

My ambition is to do what I like and to do good things that I might not have done before.

I am not fighting for success, just to get more beauty out of myself and share it with more people.

I think it started since I was born, I always had a need to express myself, you know, as a human being, and I found that it felt right when I expressed myself through art, dance, through acting, so it kind of happened naturally.

I'm doing things that are more artistic again, more close to the material that I love. I don't disparage those things that I did. They're just not as much reflective of who I am.

I'm not looking to be an artist to make money. I'm looking to be an artist.