Bubba Sparxxx Quotes

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.

To me, what makes an artist is a unique personality that they're not afraid to let show.

I know what my sound is. I'm just trying to get it out there how I can explain it. I'm not trying to write or put out some music that doesn't represent me.

I learned early in my writing career that if I try to tailor a song for someone else, I'm usually off base. They're usually looking for something from you with your character.

I do not feel any artist can produce great art without putting great personality into it. It is always a piece of you that goes on the screen or the canvass.

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

It's just I do things differently and I want people to appreciate music for what it is, and not because of a story.

That's the most important part of all the music I produce: making sure the artist is bringing themselves out in the music.

I'm just trying to be myself - make music how I make music.

The way I work is not the way that you work, and the whole point of any creative act is that. What I have to offer is me, what you have to offer is you, and if you offer yourself with authenticity and generosity I will be moved.

I've learnt that I've had the best results from just trying to be me, trying to make a movie or TV show I want to see or write a script I want to read, and that's really all I can offer - being authentic.

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

I'm not trying to become a pop artist, and I'm not trying to make sure I stay a country artist. I'm just trying to make sure I make the best music I can, according to my way.

Every script I've written and every series I've produced have expressed the things I most deeply believe.

The whole point in developing your own style is to find your own voice.

At one moment, I thought that if I didn't do a picture in a certain way, then it wasn't a 'Mario Testino Picture.' And I've realized that Mario Testino is everything, Mario Testino is whatever he feels like being, because it always ends up looking like me, whatever I do.

I'd very much like to create my own style as a photographer, even if it's just for myself.

I kind of always wanted my own music to just sound like, like me, I suppose, like if I was music it would be the music I make, I think.

I have many musical inspirations, but I would really love to just be me. My very own artist.

I think this, I think basically I'm not interested in people following my work or making work like my work.

Putting out commercial pieces and promoting them and trying to sell them to people is not necessarily what it means to be an artist.

More than anything, I think the best thing you can do as an artist is just stay as true to yourself as possible and hope that your fan base will appreciate that.

The aim of every authentic artist is not to conform to the history of art, but to release himself from it in order to replace it with his own history.

I wanted to come through with my own voice and, hopefully, have it affect people. I want people to know that I'm not an Elvis impersonator.

My films, no one else will do.