Ed Kowalczyk Quotes

As an artist, you have to do what you feel passionate about. It has to be something you can connect with.

Everything I record, I just try to sound like me and come up with songs that suit what I do, and then just go for it.

My art springs from my desire to have things in the world which would otherwise never be there.

I'd like to make music for as long as I can; it feels like something I need to do.

That's something that I think the best artists retain - the ability to invite you into their small, intimate inner space, and let that be what radiates.

As an artist, I often wonder what my purpose is or why I do what I do.

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

We never sit down before we start making a record and talk about this new sonic palette that we are going to try to explore. We always let the record kind of reveal itself to us over time.

There is an incredible love in creating art unless somebody is saying, 'Hey, let's just make money,' because it doesn't work when you do it that way. If you are aiming for that, forget it.

The artists who stand out to me have a passion for what they do. There are a lot of people who can sing. It's just like when you go to church and people are singing because it sounds good, not because it feels good. There's a difference.

An artist is he for whom the goal and center of life is to form his mind.

I said, other people can write songs, let's see if I can. So the first 400 or 500 wound up on the floor somewhere. Then I wrote one called Melissa.

The music I turn out these days is the kind of music I want to hear myself.

I try to make my music interesting to me first, then hopefully other people will find it interesting, too.

What drives me is to still feel creative and like I'm pushing myself as an artist.

I think every artist should follow their vision; their hearts is what they need to reveal, not something that society is looking out for. That said though, I think also artists have, continuously good artists, have been good for their times.

I just like to choose projects that will allow me as an artist to make my art.

I'm not looking to be an artist to make money. I'm looking to be an artist.

Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.

I get very frustrated by this term 'genre exercise.' I mean, what exactly is that? Genre is not really relevant when you are writing a song; hopefully you are doing it to explore something, to create something, and I don't agree that any of my albums are genre exercises.

Nothing is more rewarding than to take a song, create it out of thin air and then watch it affect people.

I play guitar quite a bit, because I'm always in search of something. I don't play to jam, but because I'm fishing. I'm looking for something, that I hope you can never find. If I do find it, I'm afraid I won't have a need to do this any more.

Make good art.

I genuinely find the most meaningful thing I do is to make music, but also to absorb some sort of creativity.

My music is going to be true. I'm not out to sell records. I'm experiencing something, and it's what I feel.