Dave Holland Quotes

But at a certain point, you have to take your influence and find your own voice if you want to become a relevant artist.

I think I'm just doing me, my music, my shows, and my stories.

My style is constantly evolving. Style has been something that I think has been the hardest thing for me to come to terms with.

The reason I put make-up on or wear the costume is to try and find my own style. It's like my guitar style - I'm just trying to be an original artist.

There's no way to describe what I do. It's just me.

I'm starting to find my own style.

I have done a lot of work internally to find out who I am, what voice Eamonn Walker has and how he wants to put it out there.

I had to find my own language in jewelry. That was important to me; it really had to be what I would love to have myself.

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

People choose whatever projects they've seen that I've done over the years, and whichever one is their favorite is the only one they care about. But I realized that none of those were my voice or representative of what my thoughts and feelings were.

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

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

I stick to what I do best, and I think what makes an artist an artist is when they know who they are.

Art is such a personal experience, I really try to make my own thing.

My work is trying to at least define myself on my own terms, and then if other people enjoy things that's a lovely addition.

Every young artist has to do it one way, his [or her] way, and the hell with patterns. Remember who you are and where you are and what you are doing.... And never take advice, including this.

I am an artist who's just tryin' to do something different, and basically not caring about everybody's opinions and wanting to follow what everybody else is doing. At the same time, I know when to be serious, but I know when to joke.

I feel like the point of being an artist is to have your own voice: to do it the way you would do it and not the way anyone else would do it. If you're a strong enough writer, then that voice is going to come out all the time, and I can't stop it from coming out, no matter what I do.

I feel like it's important, especially at young age, to find exactly what it is that makes your style so important as opposed to just trying to fit into the iconic styles of performers out there.

Music is such an intensely personal thing for me, and I knew if I was going to do it, it would be in my own way.

When you know who you are, you know who you are. That's the real dangerous thing in Hollywood, because they all want to create you and mold you.

Whatever is about you that is translated into your art, that's gonna keep you completly original and fresh and I just think that, that's just the best advice I can give, to an artist creatively.

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

I really don't think of my work in terms of a genre. I think of it in terms of what I want to say, what I think is cool, and what I'm good at.

Personally, I feel that in my own work I wanted to look programmed or impersonal but I don't really believe I am being impersonal when I do it. And I don't think you could do this.