Tom Odell Quotes

You're always in a different headspace when you make each record, so hopefully they're all different. You just pick up things that you wish you hadn't done on the first one.

You think you're developing and getting better and then you see something you did years ago. Looking at your early work.. sometimes it has a depth that surprises you.

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

We're all works of art in progress.

I am my own worst critic, and I look at 'Death Sentence' now, and I go, 'Oh wow, I have really come a long way.' In terms of a filmmaker, I feel like my filmmaking language has really matured.

Perhaps I might be satisfied, momentarily, with a work finished at one sitting, but I would soon get bored looking at it; therefore, I prefer to continue working on it so that later I may recognize it as a work of my mind.

I think that new artistic challenges help you grow both as a person, as an artist, and then they feed back into your other work, and tend to magnify it.

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

I can sit and analyze everything and beat myself up and say you don't quite sing as good as you used to, you're writing better songs maybe than you used to, but to me it's just the journey.

With every project you do, you bring out a part of yourself, and it seems to be quite a good way of expanding a person.

I keep pushing buttons and trying to grow as a person and as a filmmaker.

It is important to make your own stuff. Even if you are not an actor, it is important to not stop involving yourself as a creative person.

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

Anyone who does anything creative is always gonna want to change.

I feel like I introduce another level of my creative ability on every album.

In any of the arts, you never stop learning.

I tried to draw people more realistically, but the figure I neglected to update was myself.

To work on great material, what you really end up working on is yourself, your own humanity.

I prefer to think of myself as a musician who is still learning and trying to do something every time out.

My first records are integral because I made them, you know, and I'm going to learn from those mistakes.

Everyone needs solitude, especially a person who is used to thinking about what she experiences. Solitude is very important in my work as a mode of inspiration, but isolation is not good in this respect. I am not writing poetry about isolation.

Then I came in twice a week - for my own enjoyment as well as to be a guide. And then we started to apply some of the splinters of the ideas back into the piece.

Were there stories I wrote along the way that were terrible clinkers? God, yes. But they were all a product of their time, and I did the best I could.

I'm always writing and reflecting on life. I want to suck it all in.

The roles I think about and can't stop thinking about - on the subway, when I'm riding my bike, when I'm running - are the things I connect to.