You have to sit with the songs until they start to live. Or do things straight-up spontaneously. I set up a beat just like I do in the live show, add the lyrics that I wrote in thirty minutes - I already had a topic in mind because I had this crazy experience with this girl who was trying to get close to me and it freaked me out because she was really close to another friend of mine, and I thought, "This is a story, I'm gonna make this into a song."
It's really hard to make something that doesn't sound like everything else. - Jamie Lidell
It's really hard to make something that doesn't sound like everything else.
- Jamie Lidell
I guess I've always had such an identity crisis when it comes to other people's understanding of me. I don't feel it in myself but from an outsider's… - Jamie Lidell
I guess I've always had such an identity crisis when it comes to other people's understanding of me. I don't feel it in myself but from an outsider's…
There's a difference between writing, the written word, and music. When you have the blank page it doesn't make a sound, which is like what happens t… - Jamie Lidell
There's a difference between writing, the written word, and music. When you have the blank page it doesn't make a sound, which is like what happens t…
You have to sit with the songs until they start to live. Or do things straight-up spontaneously. I set up a beat just like I do in the live show, add… - Jamie Lidell
You have to sit with the songs until they start to live. Or do things straight-up spontaneously. I set up a beat just like I do in the live show, add…
It's weird how things are really stop-start in my creative process. I can't just turn it on - it just happens kind of randomly and I've just got to r… - Jamie Lidell
It's weird how things are really stop-start in my creative process. I can't just turn it on - it just happens kind of randomly and I've just got to r…
I really wanted to maintain that bedroom philosophy to creating stuff. I don't believe the hype; I think a great record is because I put a lot of lov… - Jamie Lidell
I really wanted to maintain that bedroom philosophy to creating stuff. I don't believe the hype; I think a great record is because I put a lot of lov…
If I don't keep my music varied I go a bit stir crazy, you know? If I don't have the opportunity to jump genres every now and again I feel I'm boxed-… - Jamie Lidell
If I don't keep my music varied I go a bit stir crazy, you know? If I don't have the opportunity to jump genres every now and again I feel I'm boxed-…
It always happens around beach resorts, a certain kind of money gravitates to the scene. The gold goes to the water. People love to wear it, show it … - Jamie Lidell
It always happens around beach resorts, a certain kind of money gravitates to the scene. The gold goes to the water. People love to wear it, show it …
Improvisation has been with me since I was a kid, and, taking a selfish pleasure from that, I just thought, "What the hell. It might as well be somet… - Jamie Lidell
Improvisation has been with me since I was a kid, and, taking a selfish pleasure from that, I just thought, "What the hell. It might as well be somet…
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