Calum Scott Quotes

I'll never be August Wilson - but what I can be is more of myself.

People always tell me, 'Reinvent yourself, re-this, re-whatever.' I haven't reinvented myself. It's an honest evolution. I've always been authentic.

I always try to improve, to find new ways of expressing myself, to keep looking for truth and originality.

I am my own experiment. I am my own work of art.

Where he tells you exactly how he views the world - just very straight Kanye, honesty that definitely gets your creativity and strong opinions out on the floor. I think it helped me find myself.

When you're younger, you want to project an image of yourself through your work, but now, I just want to make something honest.

With every project you do, you bring out a part of yourself, and it seems to be quite a good way of expanding a person.

I have resolved on an enterprise that has no precedent and will have no imitator. I want to set before my fellow human beings a man in every way true to nature; and that man will be myself.

I didn't start to work until I realized what it was I had to offer. I stopped imitating performers I admired and started just being myself.

I love how people in this business push themselves to know themselves, the world, and their creativity better.

It's not an epitaph. I felt I could look back at my life and get a good story out of it. It's a picture of somebody trying to figure things out. I'm not trying to create some impression about myself. That doesn't interest me.

I could do nice, but it's just not as much fun. Being nice isn't my biggest goal in life. I'm trying to be honest about who I am, and that's not always nice. I'm not always the world's cheerleader.

Life is the most versatile thing under the sun; and in the pursuit of life and character the author who works in a groove works in blinkers.

My lyrics come from my experiences growing up in life, trying to find out and express who I am. That's basically it. I'm not trying to be a prophet or anything like that. I'm just reflecting on life.

I come out of real life.

How I set myself apart is by creating the sort of real and honest music, which is who I'm also trying to be.

My life is an open pamphlet.

I'm not a military general, a business guru, not a philosopher or author. It's only me.

I wanted to create a body of work that I was proud of. It's come from honesty and integrity, without forcing anything from myself, the ideas had to come instinctively and organically. Whether that translates to people in that way, it's kind of out of my hands now.

I don't feel I have to be Jackson Browne. Still, I like to say something.

You've got to be genuine and not try and be someone else - but be a better you all the time.

I think when you start changing things, you're not being yourself.

I felt like a failure for so long because I wasn't able to access myself in the way I knew I would have if I was going to make music that mattered. I knew I was going to have to learn how to be honest.

We are living in a world where the individual must learn to command the raw materials of expression. He must not be dependent all the time on the ready-made, the finished product. It's the transferring, the changing of the raw into what is the expression of your own self – the whole joy and satisfaction and frustration of life is built into this.

I wish I could say confidently that pacing remains my weak point, if you could talk about your own stuff without sounding like you're self-obsessed. But I think you kind of have to be.