Orlando Jones Quotes

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

I have my own language and it's high time I put a little of it out there.

In any piece of art, the artist pours themselves into it. It becomes a reflection of who they are and what they believe. That's what it has to be. Otherwise it's just a product.

That's the most important part of all the music I produce: making sure the artist is bringing themselves out in the music.

I try to place what I creatively have to say above who I am.

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

I just think I want my work to represent me fully.

Don't worry about trying to develop a style. Style is what you can't help doing. If you write enough, you draw enough, you'll have a style, whether you want it or not. Don't worry about whether you're "commercial". Tell your own stories, draw your own pictures. Let other people follow you.

To be a true artist, I have to be true to who I am now and write that way.

My work is literally my voice.

Lucian Freud's career affirms that the only thing an artist can do is remain true to whatever vision, (lack of) talent, or ideas that happened to pick them in order to be made known to the world.

I think I'd say that my whole body of work is a reflection of who I am, but not any one specific thing.

Every art expression is rooted fundamentally in the personality and temperament of the artist.

The only people who have doubts about the sincerity of my music are people who come to it relatively late, off the back of having seen me in a film. Acting is about being other people, and music is about being myself.

I kind of always wanted my own music to just sound like, like me, I suppose, like if I was music it would be the music I make, I think.

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've never tried to be anything but me. Even with Slipknot, where it can almost feel like a roll sometimes, it's still a part of who I am. It's a very strong and passionate part of who I am, and I'm lucky enough to have an audience that is really open to what I do.

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

To be honest, I don't think I'm an actor. I'm a creator - or try to be.

It is almost impossible to reconcile self expression with the creative act.

I personally feel like people shouldn't have to come out. That, to me, was like a moment for myself where I was coming out to myself with, like, 'Okay, I can be the artist that I want to be, and as long as the music is good, people will accept me. It doesn't matter who I am, what I look like. If the music is good, they will like me. The end.'

Stand up for yourself and fight for your right to be the artist that you want to be. There's plenty of pressure from outside; people tell you how to dress and how to sing or what to sing, but I always felt like if I'm going to fail or succeed, I want to do it on my own terms.

My artistic manifesto exists in the world as poetry. So even though most of the things that I've done have been on other people's projects or could be pigeonholed in certain ways, that's not how I perceive myself.

Your own material is your identity, and I think that's what you need to stick to.