Dhani Harrison Quotes

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

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

So many people have gone to music production schools for years and years, and they've wanted this their whole entire life, and part of me feels like I've kind of cheated that a bit because I'm not grade A on piano, and I don't know a lot about production. But I do what I do.

I still feel very much an imposter in the whole music scene, which I'm quite happy about to be honest.

I just see myself as a guy who's trying to make a film or, make art.

I like to pretend that my art has nothing to do with me.

Being an artist doesn't mean that you're a good artist. That was the bargain I first made with myself: I'd say, I'm an artist, but I'm not really very good.

I can't constantly be trying to write the unwritten song, the song that the 15-year-old girl needs. I need to write the song that I need.

I'm always gonna be all over my CD the most, of course. My talent is my talent. I ain't really tripping off no ego; I just like to make good music with good people.

Personally, I feel that in my own work I wanted to look programmed or impersonal but I don't really believe I am being impersonal when I do it. And I don't think you could do this.

I think it's important to really press on with the song writing and just go with it. There's no code, there's no craft... it's just let yourself shine through your music. If it's meant to be loved and heard, it'll happen.

A lot of times when I'm writing lyrics, I just think about insecurities that I might have and turn them into a scene. Some things may be true, and some things may not.

I do not feel any artist can produce great art without putting great personality into it. It is always a piece of you that goes on the screen or the canvass.

I'm the artist when I'm doing music that I am when I'm acting. I'm everything.

I still haven't made a film that defines who I am.

I always was really confident about myself, about my voice, myself as a person, my body, all of those things, but as a songwriter - I just didn't identify as a songwriter at all.

If I didn't think and feel the way I think and feel, I couldn't sing the way I sing. And I like singing the way I sing.

When I sit down to write, I consider myself an artist.

Every song that I play I wrote by myself.

I'm not an intellectual composer.

You're always putting yourself into your work. There's no separation; it's just how you use yourself and transform.

I never thought of myself as a performer or songwriter or singer.

In any piece of art, the artist pours themselves into it. It becomes a reflection of who they are and what they believe. That's what it has to be. Otherwise it's just a product.

I'm like this ghost - you look around, and all you see is the artist. But if you look at the credits, it's still Poo Bear.

I don't write anything down - it comes from my head and my soul and my heart and my pain. That allows me to make the best music I can make.