Grace Kelly Quotes

It wasn't until Duotones that I felt my true voice come out.

He has found his style, when he cannot do otherwise.

For me, making music is a continuous learning experience, and I think that it feeds itself.

The whole process of this record was an education for me as a musician.

My songwriting has evolved, just as I've evolved as a person.

There are people who compose from very young. That is not my case. I went discovering myself.

I didn't know how to play guitar until I was 21, but from the moment I was good enough on guitar to even put one song together, I kind of billed myself as an artist.

I can put some chords together and maybe write a song, but I'm learning every day. And that's the fun part.

I think it's the best thing I've ever done. I think it's realistic, and it's true to the me that has been developing over the years. I like first-person music.

I think perhaps I've learned to be myself. I have a theory that all artists who would be important - painters and writers - must learn to be themselves. It takes a very long time.

Actually, I didn't study photography at first. I went to school for painting my first year, poetry my second year, graphic design my third and fourth year, and photography my fifth.

One begins by plaguing oneself to no purpose in order to be true to nature, and one concludes by working quietly from one's own palette alone, and then nature is the result.

Albums are like diaries. You go through phases, technically and emotionally, and they reflect the state that you're in at the time.

Along my path, I've realized that this comedy/drama balance is something that's really interesting to me, and I feel, like, authentic to my voice.

In life we try to grow and better ourselves. As an artist, I feel like I've grown tremendously.

Every movie I make teaches me something. That's why I keep making them.

It's a great challenge and a wonderful journey how to figure out how to be an artist and to carve my way.

You're seeing me develop, not only as a filmmaker if you've seen my earlier films, but you're seeing me kind of learn how to be a human, how my philosophy has evolved.

The first album was a very successful record. It made me very visible and it's an immediate association, but I don't do that anymore. Now I'm true to myself as an artist again. I'm more vocally oriented.

It took me a long time to find my voice as a singer, and I'm happy that I did.

I made some good pictures, and I made some bad ones. I wasn't trying to build an image, though; I was trying to build a life for myself.

Sometimes there are certain things that you gotta grow into. Sometimes, for some actors, they know it spiritually at a young age. Others need to grow into it.

I went to film school at UT Austin. I learned a lot, and that school's good for puking up all your bad movies early and quick. But ultimately, no one can teach you to be an artist.

I hardly knew anything when I first arrived. I had to learn how to act as I went along. After about a year I got a grip on what acting was all about and it started coming straight from my heart; I wasn't just saying the words any longer.

It feels like I'm starting to come into my own in terms of where I want to go artistically, toward more complicated, interesting characters.