Jack Garratt Quotes

The two records are very different. I guess, on the second record, that's more where I was at. Its not that I'm more well-adjusted or anything, it's just that what I wanted to sing about maybe was more the way I wanted to feel.

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

The creative process has been a little bit of an experience, really - to try and make that work for me. The only way I know how to do that is just to remain genuine, humble, and true to everything I know already in my life.

I don't care about the image I have. What matters to me is that with every film, I am growing more and more as an actor, pushing and challenging myself.

You have to keep cracking yourself open or you become a parody of yourself.

In life we try to grow and better ourselves. As an artist, I feel like I've grown tremendously.

People always tell me, 'Reinvent yourself, re-this, re-whatever.' I haven't reinvented myself. It's an honest evolution. I've always been authentic.

I like to be able to present myself in two or three different ways because I've never really wanted to rest on my laurels and be something that people expected.

There's no reason to change what you are, but if you're not being you, then you need to acknowledge that.

One of the greatest moments in anybody's developing experience is when he no longer tries to hide from himself but determines to get acquainted with himself as he really is.

I am just like you and everyone else. I am trying to live my life as best I can.

I am deeply in tune with my heart and core, and it's made me a better writer, artist, and most of all woman. It's made me more myself.

I've been through so much of my own self-search that I'm not as consumed with who I am as I used to be.

For me, making music is a continuous learning experience, and I think that it feeds itself.

I don't think my approach to acting is all necessarily in service of the character. I think, selfishly, I've put it in service of myself, my perspective on the world and helping my life.

I sometimes truly despair at ever being meaningfully altered and affected by the things I claim are so important to me.

I would like to think that I'm more different from my character than I am.

Worthy or not, my life is my subject, and my subject is my life.

I want to show people that there's a side of myself other than just the outrageous comedian.

You can run, run, run away from a lot of things in life, but you can't run away from yourself. And the key to happiness is to understand and accept who you are.

A lot of people hurl themselves into relationships to lose themselves, but I think the best relationships help us to be more ourselves, to bring forth our best selves.

I love how people in this business push themselves to know themselves, the world, and their creativity better.

I think I'm a pretty open book. We're all a work in progress, and I'm not ashamed to say that I don't have it all together - I don't really think anyone does.

Authenticity is the ability to listen to what nature tells us. Listening isn't the same thing as never making a mistake, but the important thing is to learn.

It's not an epitaph. I felt I could look back at my life and get a good story out of it. It's a picture of somebody trying to figure things out. I'm not trying to create some impression about myself. That doesn't interest me.