Jack Garratt Quotes

I can't really stop doing the music because it really feeds me.

But I really believe that you don't do music because you want to, you do it because you have to.

I feel like the need to want to create and make something is stronger than the difficulties are going through.

The thing running through me is the same thing that writes songs. It's the fighter about to get into the ring. It's like, I'm not here to entertain you; I'm here to get this out, whatever it is.

Writing makes you feel that there is a reason to go on living. If I couldn't write, I would stop breathing.

Do what you love, and you will find the way to get it out to the world.

Van Gogh never made a penny in his entire lifetime. He painted because it was his soul, his excitement. It was what aligned him with his Source of being. It's the same with me and writing.

Life obliges me to do something, so I paint.

I have a desire to create more film, more beauty, more art, more love, but I don't feel desperate. It's not about creating or building a career.

Art is like breathing for me. If I don't do it, I start to choke.

I'm voraciously looking to express myself in my work. I love my work.

If I didn't write my soul would dry up and die.

Motivation is just this potion to create stuff, a compulsion to express the truth of my own experiences in this life.

At the end of the day, my life isn't about other people's work. I've got to stop giving stuff away. I've got my own stories to tell, and a great need to tell them. I've got these images, these thoughts in my head, and I need to find a way to cope with them.

Making music is still what keeps a fire going on in me.

I just keep on playing what I love.

No, I think that a person writes a poem because they have an inner urge of something that they want to express, and I think it's that inner urge that you want to express when you write a piece of music.

You're not going to do good work if you're not choosing something because it inspires you.

Art was - and is - my biggest outlet. I'd probably die if I didn't do it.

I don't necessarily do anything just for the money. I do it for the passion and I do it for the love, because I'm still hungry. So if I want to do music, it's not necessarily motivated because of monetary value. It's more about the passion and the love, and I think that's where music should come from, the heart, not necessarily just to cash a check.

Find a way to express what moves you.

Not writing would be like going the rest of your life without having dreams.

Pay attention to your passions. They are the key to starting and finishing the book you are meant to write. I don't believe in talent. I believe in passion.

Creativity is connected to your passion, that light inside you that drives you. That joy that comes when you do something you love. That small voice that tells you, 'I like this. Do this again. You are good at it. Keep going.' That is the juicy stuff that lubricates our lives and helps us feel less alone in the world.

Actually, when I write, there is a feeling of necessity, of something that is stronger than myself that demands that I must write as I write.