Jill Scott Quotes

The deeper I get into my life as a musician, I'm discovering that it becomes less and less about other people, and more about what I want to do. And that's a good place to be.

I can't play anything until I find something that connects to my life, something I can carry as my secret map or code for the character.

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

The more I see and know about life, the more ideas I have and the more I want to make art.

The first record I spent five years writing and it was an amalgamation of all the things that happened in my life from the time I was fifteen to the time I was twenty.

All my life as an artist I have asked myself: What pushes me continually to make sculpture? I have found the answer. art is an action against death. It is a denial of death.

Writing changed my life. It has an existential dimension, and that's the same for every writer. Every artist has a moment of awakening, of happening upon an idea that grabs hold of you, regardless of whether you are a painter or a writer.

I can obviously relate to a character who is an artist, because the creative process is a big part of my life.

Creating the album 'VIBES' has been the biggest life lesson I have ever learned.

With every role that I do, I always see a little bit of me, a little bit of art and life.

My films are always a reflection of where I am in my life.

I have been inspired by countless artists over the years, but there's also times when you just gotta make your own inspiration.

I don’t have a problem baring my emotions in music. That’s one of the reasons I’m glad to have music in my life. I’m pretty resilient as far as being a human being. A lot of songs write themselves.

A writer, or any man, must believe that whatever happens to him is an instrument; everything has been given for an end. This is even stronger in the case of the artist. Everything that happens, including humiliations, embarrassments, misfortunes, all has been given like clay, like material for one's art. One must accept it.

Your life can become the background for the art you create.

Your personal life, your professional life, and your creative life are all intertwined. I went through a few very difficult years where I felt like a failure. But it was actually really important for me to go through that. Struggle, for me, is the most inspirational thing in the world at the end of the day - as long as you treat it that way.

One of the most important reasons for living is to do something - live outside of yourself and put together an idea, an idea that you want to explore and then complete... Awaken your creative sensitivities!

I have been taking every step toward the future every day through making many paintings and sculptures with my deep emotion hidden in my life.

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

I spent the first 22 years of my life absorbing everything, like a big disgusting cell, and now I'm disgorging it with jokes added out into the world. That's a really gross metaphor.

It took me years of attempts and failed drafts before I finally wrote the elegies I needed to write.

What I write is very personal, but not autobiographical. It's more 'thematically personal' - what's up in my life in terms of themes at the moment.

Songwriting is like going to church. I'm connecting to something, and it's rewarding in really important ways. I don't need to share it with anyone to feel good about it.

I want to liberate my imagination and my mind with every kind of movie. That is what I wanted to do all my life.

I had a lot of songs and words and scenes stuck inside of me. So Jacknife encouraged me to bring them all out. So, in essence, 'You and Others' is my diary.