Jenny Offill Quotes

I don't know how well I work in traditions. I don't know if it's just the way I listened to music growing up and never having my foot in one particular world, and just wanting to do my own thing.

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.

My plan was to never get married. I was going to be an art monster instead.

I think that everyone who does music, and everyone who does art, or everyone who decides at a young age that they're gonna do that, is someone who feels like an outsider. The world is not really set up for that.

I'm not trying to save the world. As a musician and artist, it just ain't me.

I'm my own artist, and I see artists as movies. No one should try to change them for anything. If you don't like it, you just don't follow it. And if you don't like a movie you don't watch it. Watch another movie.

It does not matter how badly you paint so long as you don't paint badly like other people.

I don't care what people do. I don't care how people remember my albums. I do them for my own reasons.

People must insist on the right to say no, to be alone, to stand out from the herd. Creative artists can say all this in their own way and in their own field, by hard, rigorous work.

I don't tell anyone how to write and no one tells me.

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

I don't care what people say. My music's, my music.

I'm not a slave to fashion; I'm into exercising my individuality.

Anyway I feel myself a bit on the edge on the art world, but I don't mind, I'm just pursuing my work in a very excited way. And there isn't really a mainstream anymore, is there?

Like most creative people I don't fit well into boxes.

I like that I'm not typical. I like that I'm called 'no-genre hip-hop.'

Actually I like the idea of being a Renaissance hack. If tombstones were still in style, I would want to have the two words chiseled right under my name.

Some people say I'm conscious, some say I'm a gangsta rapper - it's just me doing me. I'm stomping in my own lane. I'm doing what I do.

In school, I learned about artists and how they were free to express themselves. I was allergic to conformity, and the lifestyle attracted me. I wanted to express myself in a way that slammed people up against the wall.

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'm a free spirit and that definitely comes from my upbringing, so it's definitely shaped me as an artist.

I know I'm not gonna please everybody when I make a record. I don't let that affect any of my decisions.

I am a poet; I am not a worker. I need to be free.

I think we're quite unique in that we do have our own sound and approach and we don't really care what's going on elsewhere... we've never wanted to be part of another trend or movement.

I wasn't Britney Spears or Jessica Simpson. I wasn't Tori Amos or Norah Jones. Nobody knew what to do with me.