Hillary Scott Quotes

I love how people in this business push themselves to know themselves, the world, and their creativity better.

The dream is to keep surprising yourself, never mind the audience.

I'm always trying to do stuff I haven't done before or challenge myself so I'm not resting on my laurels all of the time because if I just found my little niche and never left it, I'd be pretty boring, I think.

As a songwriter there's nothing more exciting than the unknown, the new and different.

The stage sharpened my creative instrument and encouraged me to go deeper and try new things.

There are so many sounds I still want to make, so many things I haven't yet done.

From the very beginning, I've always just wanted to do something I've never done before. I'm still just trying to be on that path. It's all about working with filmmakers that you believe in.

I always try to improve, to find new ways of expressing myself, to keep looking for truth and originality.

It never gets boring for me because there's so many different things to explore in the studio. The studio's become the sanctuary that people have come in and found new things out about themselves, as weird as that sounds. But it's true, I'm no different. I've made some crazy hard records, and I've made a jazz album.

I try to find more interesting material with each project I do.

I started putting down my own pen and spending some time searching for the best songs out there possible. It doesn't matter if I wrote them or not.

And doing so you can recreate yourself and you can also come up with something that is not only original and creative and artistic, but also maybe even decent, or moral if I can use words like that, or something that's like basically good.

I really strive to bring something new to each book. I don't want to write the same book over and over again.

When I started, my teachers told me that I had to sing 'Mozart, Mozart, Mozart.' I said, 'No, I want to sing all the other stuff.' If you do not push yourself, you will stay the same. Maybe some singers are happy with that, but I have to move, I have to do something new always.

One of the reasons why I don't write the same kind of book again and again is that I get bored very easily, so I like to make things interesting for myself.

When I'm making stuff, the thing that excites me most is not the result, but the process and trying to do something I've never done before.

Genius is not perfected, it is deepened. It does not so much interpret the world as fertilize itself with it.

I always want to keep challenging myself to do something that I don't even have the foresight to know what it's going to be.

I can't imagine not being in a phase where I'm trying to understand something or create something. That's the essence of life.

My well-known aesthetic sense, which is so obvious and personal, spontaneously spurs me to challenge myself with different disciplines.

The part of the process that's exciting to me is feeling like I'm in a place I've never been before, in every way. Without that, I don't know if I'd be a writer.

My films are so new and unique that I don't know where I will end up. Fear keeps me alert. And it's also a part of an excitement.

I try to make things that are fresh and different, even if they are inspired by classic things.

I think you should experience life before you can recreate it.

I try every day to do something that I've never done before or make some sound that I've never made before.