Lisa Cholodenko Quotes

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

The most important thing for me as an artist is having an identity.

I'm now able to show who I am as an artist.

You know how they say, "Find your voice"? That's your voice, in your pajamas. And it doesn't mean that you're going to publish it or print it or people are going to see you in your pajamas. It just means you are going to construct the foundation in your pajamas, in that voice.

I realised that I had always been writing things that other people wanted me to write and not what I really wanted to write, so I felt like I was losing my way.

Doing 'All Good Things' really felt like I was acting for myself rather than anyone else. It gave me a freedom I'd never had before, or knew I had, to do whatever I want to, and to argue my opinions and not just feel like the cute girl on set or the girl in a boy's club. I figured out how I could be both. And it's been different ever since.

The main thing in making your own music is that it's an expression of someone's personality and being. That's what people want to hear, and you can't really teach that - that's just something that comes out. Teaching just hones that.

There are different sides to me; I wanted to make a personal film but I would not want to make any film that does not reflect me in it. At least, not right now. I'm just too young to be doing that.

I'll never be August Wilson - but what I can be is more of myself.

I have done a lot of work internally to find out who I am, what voice Eamonn Walker has and how he wants to put it out there.

My work is intensely personal.

People choose whatever projects they've seen that I've done over the years, and whichever one is their favorite is the only one they care about. But I realized that none of those were my voice or representative of what my thoughts and feelings were.

It took me at least all my 20s and some of my 30s to get the confidence to realise I could just write about what I wanted to write about without having to pass a test or look super clever.

I don't feel I have to be Jackson Browne. Still, I like to say something.

I had a passion and a soul in me that was screaming to be heard, and I had to let them out in as honest and challenging a way as I could.

Poetry was my 'in' to the idea that I could express myself through art.

I feel like the 'Supernova' record, those songs are very me. It's a more honest representation of me than any record I have made prior to that.

Your style can be an artistic part of your personal leadership journey.

You have to find an identity that's true to yourself. You really have to find your own voice.

It's truthful - every single song is an extension of me and a truthful piece of inspiration from my past or something I'm currently going through.

To express yourself needs a reason, but expressing yourself is the reason.

I knew that when it came time for me to finally make my own album, it wasnt going to be about being a jock. It had to be more personal and intimate.

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.

If I was singing like somebody else, then it was almost like I was expressing myself like somebody else. So it was always a very original thing for me. It's my voice, it's my diary, it's the way I connect with people.

Write what you would love to read. Finish what you begin to write. Your voice is uniquely yours and we are all waiting to hear it.