St. Lucia Quotes, Thoughts and images

You may be surprised to know that growing up, I wanted to be a writer of children's books.

I have noticed that these days, people don't want to take their time to succeed.

I think it's important to just be in your subconscious mind - at least when you're starting an idea.

Normally the meaning of the songs, if there is any, occurs to me after I've written the song.

A true artist is practically married to his or her art form so I just couldn't turn my back on it.

It's sad that some people still believe that artists die poor. This is not the case in this day and age.

Normally when I'm writing, in the beginning I don't think of lyrics at all. I'm just improvising.

I try to not be self-conscious in my writing process.

When I start working on an idea, I immediately record without judging it.

I've been making music for as long as I can remember. I would, as a kid, just sing little ideas or be making something.

When I'm writing, those ideas are seldom inspired by music itself. I won't often listen to an artist and come up with an idea.

World music evokes a feeling. You don't have to think about the scene that it comes from.

The music that I listen to the most is probably world music, whether it's from African or South America or all over.

What I love about African-African music is how unselfconscious it is in so many ways.

Unfortunately, there are very few facilities which offer courses in the arts. Not all the secondary schools offer the subject for CXC examinations.

I developed this guiding statement to stress on the fact that every good thing takes time to develop.

I think that there is always room for improvement so I am seeking to reach as far as I can in my field of art, film and animation.

Apart from the traditional paintings I also dabble with a little photography.

We should not let negative influences get to us.

I am really enjoying media arts and digital painting.

As a visual arts teacher, I have to keep my mind open. I have explores styles from pointillism to cubism.

I tend to keep my mind open to the different forms of art out there and I am always willing to try new stuff.

I labour over details and whether a song should be a straight pop song form or exploratory. This is the curse with doing things by yourself.

I'm really into a lot of different music, and a lot of stuff that sounds absolutely nothing like anything on the Mini-Album.

I must say that the first person to realise that I was talented in art was my mother.

From as long as I can remember, I was always fond of drawing.