Jimmy Bennett Quotes

I write my own songs. I made my own videos. I pick my producers. Nothing goes out without my permission. It's all authentic.

I publish my own music. I'm creating my own songbook. It works that way for me; I'm very independent.

Songwriting is such an intricate part of me as an artist and as a person; I couldn't just let someone else do it.

I think songwriting was the biggest way that I found my identity.

I love writing about things I know, and I like to be very honest in my music.

Not to take anything away from artists who don't write their own songs, but it's always been important to me to make sure it's my story.

I'm certainly not who people think I am. I always do whatever I want to do, and my films are personal to me.

When it comes to music, it's my clothes, it's my guitar, it's my voice, it's my song.

I do not like people writing songs and then other people singing them. A lot of people don't even sing their own songs anymore. It's like producers these days have ghost producers; 'I don't produce, but I am a producer.'

I've gotten to a point where I wouldn't direct someone else's material. It would only be something totally original.

I've got more creative control when I do music.

I won't work on anyone's else's script. I won't write for anyone else. I write my own stuff and make that when the time is right.

I don't see myself as the boss. I sing and write the songs, and it would feel strange if somebody else wrote the lyrics I sang.

Music is also a part of who I am so I'm thinking about recording an album.

I started out really making music in my dorm room, and it wasn't really producing or anything like that; it was you making something.

The ultimate thing is creating your own stuff and making projects for yourself. That's what Seth Rogen does. He's writing and producing a lot of the movies that he's the lead in.

Most of the songs I wrote are personal.

I have a lot of memories, but I don't go into capitalizing on that. Something's got to be my own. I'm not doing the record to sit here and broadcast my memories of my father.

I do like the idea of being an auteur in the sense of writing and being in your own stuff.

I write my songs and just play them, so there are not a whole lot of fireworks. As long as the music comes first, it's OK to have some fireworks. But not the other way around.

If you want to be taken seriously and gain credibility, you really do have to try and write yourself. I don't want to do an album of covers and stuff.

The beauty of being a musician is writing songs. That's the best part. It's therapeutic and honest and private.

Acting is awesome, but I'm really, really able to express myself creatively in music.

It's good to make your own things because you can have control of your own art.

If you write your own material and perform your own material, then nobody can really expose it because if you keep your secrets close to yourself, then nobody can really expose you.