Susanna Fogel Quotes

You go through a process of refinement and getting rid of the excesses of your early youth in terms of your excitement about what theatre can do.

It's the people who try to be clever who never are; the people who are clever never think of trying to be.

I never want to be pretentious.

I think as a mature artist, you're probably always trying to undo the compromises of one's self [in general]. It's not necessarily to do with youth.

Self-awareness is a character trait that's horrible to have if you're a performer. I think that a lot of these performers that we see get up on stage and play music, there's a sense of them truly not caring how they're coming across. They are just themselves. I look up to a lot of people who are like that.

I think who I am as a person on and off the stage is always kind of the same thing, but I don't take a lot of things very seriously.

I think overdesigning comes from a lack of editing. The strongest, most compelling, and most useful things in life are irreducible - love, truth, faith, honor.

Stealing Chanel' was very different for me as an artist. I had to embrace and expose my vulnerabilities, instead of manifesting a character.

I'm not trying to be anything other than the way I was born and raised.

I don't want to put myself in any kind of a box as far as my sound goes, because being an artist is fluid. If you look at a painter's work, a lot of times, it's similar in style, but other times - over even a year's period - it can change so much. I'm just going with the flow.

For me, what matters is who are you working with, what you are working on, and when all that fits naturally, I let it go. Then, I don't care if it is bold or if it needs me to be uninhibited. I just want the role that I am playing to come out the way it should.

'City Of Black And White' was me trying to do something more mature, more adult contemporary.

I speak from experience, and I speak from the heart, and I speak only what I know and what I understand; and on what I don't know and what I don't understand, I'm a good listener.

I try to not to overanalyze, not to watch myself too much, but to be present in life and in my art. I'm so glad it comes off in that way.

Looking through the camera lens reduces noise; as humans we see a million shapes, colours and textures. What the lens does, what art does in general, is get rid of all the noise. It hones in and isolates the qualities of a scene.

As I get older and more mature, my artwork changes accordingly.

I used to throw a lot of stuff against the wall, just to see what ended up sticking; now I'm pretty much using everything that I create for a record.

I let Brel into my world. What I like about him is the simplicity of his language. It's not so simple to be simple.

Producing has empowered me as an artist in a specific way. It's forced a certain kind of maturity.

When I was a kid and writing more acoustic songs, I was doing it more for the attention than for the love of the music. I knew I needed to change something because I wasn't having fun and wasn't liking the songs I was writing.

I'm definitely not proud of some of the stuff I did as a youth, but that's where my mind-frame was at one point in my life, and I can't pretend those things didn't happen. I'm not glorifying them, I'm trying to make them into art.

I just make my music. It's not too complicated.

I have learned, as I get older, just to be who I am.

For me, music is just one road. I dont have a specific pursuit; generally. I just try to be more aware of myself.

I tend to get very suspicious of anything that thinks it's art while it's being created.