Jesse Harris Quotes

Every album I've made is about what I'm experiencing at the time.

If you're writing for yourself as an artist, you are always pulling on your own experiences.

I don't know, I've always written songs that are mainly about attitude, not me personally.

My writing is authentic, and whatever happens in my life is what I write about.

I think most of my songs are based on an emotion and in every song I write, there's at least a partial truth.

I have all these revelations as I'm writing. Each song is like a chapter of my diary.

When I started to write a tune, I just wrote the nearest at hand, which was what was happening in my own life.

I'm always inspired to write, and it's usually my own life experiences that inspire me.

My inspiration for songs is just everyday life. I just write down words about things that have happened to me, people I've met.

With pretty much everything that I've done, in terms of going from being a songwriter and producer for other artists to doing my stuff, all the songs that I've kept to myself have always been me writing about my life.

When I write a song, I hear the music and words at the same time - one suggests the form of the other.

My music has been inspired by true events in my life.

As a musician, it's only natural that my music mirrors my life.

The idea for 'Midnight Moonlight' was mostly inspired by the moon herself. Advancing from my previous EP 'Moon Shoes,' I felt it necessary to dig a little deeper into who I am and the relationship between my music and the moon.

As someone whose music is connected to his personal growth, I feel an obligation to follow this muse wherever it leads.

Everything I make starts very personally.

All my songs are where I am.

Through my films I'm eventually trying to one day tell the truth. I don't know if I'm ever going to get there, but I'm slowly letting pieces of myself out there and then maybe by the time I'm 85, I'll look back and say, 'All right, that about sums it up.'

I always say, and I truly believe this, that my work is three steps ahead of me. I have an idea for something and I tend to feel like it's leading me and I'll follow the process through, and it's not until after I've seen it that I truly understand why I'm doing this.

I look at the artistic process as like experiencing the world, channeling it through your personality and sending it back out there. That's the process.

Being an artist, it's all a journey, and you learn where the subtle patterns lie.

The act of song writing and recording became one and the same to me; because I essentially recorded everything I did from the day I began trying to write songs. I've always had a lot to say. I'd always written poems.

I always write my music based on what is going on in my life at the time.

I never have used any other artist as a model for a sound or a song. It always has to come from an emotion, and capturing the essence of that emotion in a song.

Every artist makes himself born. It is very much harder than the other time, and longer.