Jack Garratt Quotes

I don't know which way I'm going. My next CD might be country, might be Dylan, might be Mick Jagger. I don't know. I love a challenge.

I like writing different types of music. I don't like being stuck into one thing.

One of the things that always was Fall Out Boy was trying new things and kind of pushing ourselves in different directions.

Always try and play with as many people as possible, even if it's not your style of music, because you will learn a lot.

Music is liquid. It's meant to be messed with and played with and stretched and pulled and pushed, I think.

I am trying every genre.

I've always dabbled. I've always nearly written a book, I've always tried painting, I've always tried to make something out of ideas, really. It was never a plan. I never thought, "Right. First I'll get famous, and then I'll do a book.

I have this desire to just while away weeks, months and years. It took me two years to make this record but that was with me trying to condense my process and not disappear down the rabbit hole with all the cool things I've collected. I could take 10 years and not explore everything I want to with these instruments.

My last two records that I made were both quite pointed in one direction and I think I do my best stuff when it's all over the map, when there's a couple traditional things, a couple pretty rocking things.

I just like music all the way around the board. I can't stick to one thing - I've got to move around.

Sharon went on to play classical but we actually went into totally different instruments which was lucky for the band because otherwise we'd all be playing the same thing!!

I like to try all kinds of styles so it always challenges me and forces me to try to look different.

I never excluded any genre on my first record.

See, there were certain rules I'd always used, and people like Trane, they would break those rules.

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 have a piano and a guitar, and I tend to switch back and forth between those two instruments to help me get inspired.

I didn't really know what I was doing when I started. I just started writing songs. After two songs I just continued to explore it.

I got involved in lots of different areas round about 2007, 2008. Just working with lots of different people and stretching myself in different ways. I was working on art projects and working with other writers, just doing bits and pieces, trying to keep busy.

I'm just not sticking to one thing. I like to have fun with it. I like to spread myself in many ways, so you're gonna get all types of music.

I like to experiment, and as an actress, I always thought it's good to be open about a lot of things.

I feel like my music has become a lot of things. It's hard to label the evolution, but I like there to be an evolution. I just like to paint with all different kinds of colors.

Every album that I've attempted, I suppose, has been different - it's bound to be.

You're changing every day, right? Your curiosities and ambitions change, your ear changes, the music you like changes - and the music you want to make, too.

It's important to me to not stay too confined to any specific sonic space. There is something really magical about straight folk music - it's not that I don't like it, it's just that I like so much music, I hear so many different things, and I want to try more. I don't want to be confined.

It's time to do something different. Mind you, I'm grateful to have my career with The B-52s, but it's nice to have fun and play with my voice.