Sissy Spacek Quotes

My first book really did change my life. It allowed me to fully express myself. There was a sense that I was worth something as an artist.

I did my best work in The Mosquito Coast. I know it wasn't such a big hit, but for me it was more meaningful than anything else I'd ever done.

So I don't think of myself as just a musician at all, I think of myself as an artist.

In a lot of the art world, you have to present yourself as you know what you're doing at a young age. Music gave me another outlet. The 'no wave' bands were such an inspiration; it felt so free - once you start doing it, it's hard to stop. But I can't get away from art. It comes back around. I wouldn't be true to myself if I didn't pursue it.

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

I don't fall into the category of tortured artist. But it's not made me more or less anything.

If I weren't the way I am, I shouldn't write my symphonies.

If you are a creative person, you try to create things that are an extension of yourself.

Fortunately for me I was able to do well here, and it really did great things for my career and now hopefully I can go out there and continue to do what I did.

I think I'd say that my whole body of work is a reflection of who I am, but not any one specific thing.

Working on art, as opposed to being in a constant collaborative state, as in a band, is something that I've always done - to a smaller degree, but it always remained a part of my integral self.

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

Without a doubt, the best way to get to know me is through my music.

I always wanted to be an artist, whatever that was, like other chicks want to be stewardesses. I read. I painted. I thought.

I don't feel the need to prove myself by writing the next generational novel.

I have to be able to be the artist that I am.

As an artist, you're always somewhat obscure. We're not talking Hollywood.

To be honest, I don't think I'm an actor. I'm a creator - or try to be.

Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known.

I've never viewed myself as 'just' a musician or singer.

Every man's work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself.

I think that, as artists, all we can do is be who we are. I think that if we do that, then we're automatically not anyone else.

Your own material is your identity, and I think that's what you need to stick to.

It would take some encouragement for me to accept other people's opinions on how I should present my work because my work means a lot to me.

It took me a long time to get to where I am, but I am here and it is everywhere I want to be. A place where both my artistic merit and hard work meet. A day where I can say, 'Yeah, I'm a musician. A good one.'