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My last album as J. Tillman, 'Singing Ax,' that was really a premeditated death rattle of the aesthetic precedent I had set. I realized I wasn't creating spontaneously; I was enforcing all these parameters. I was too self-loathing or something, and there was this obvious dissonance between my conversational voice and creative voice.


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J. COLE I feel like the reason people feel like they know me is because I'm giving you myself in the mus...
J. COLE One day, I'll be listening to a bunch of Ray Charles, the next day it's nothing but Red Hot ...
J. COLE I'm half-black, half-white, so I basically put it like this: I can fit in anywhere. That's w...
J. COLE College isn't in everyone's hearts. I am living proof, though, that school doesn't mess ...
J. COLE I'm not gonna be bad at anything, and I want to actually be the best at anything I'm doing. ...
J. COLE I was just a goofy little funny kid, who was always getting sent to the principal. It wasn't ser...
J. COLE I'm a super-duper over-analyzer. You mix that with self-doubt and pressure, and that's never...
J. COLE I have a little bit of that gamer spirit in me. I just don't have the time to be a gamer. But in...
J. COLE Anything I do, I want to do it well.
J. COLE I put a lot of pressure on myself. I think something's not good enough, and I won't stop unt...
J. COLE Usually I start with a beat, I start making a beat, and my producer side is making the beat. And on ...
J. COLE There was the time I bought three cars in the span of three or four weeks. It was crazy; it wasn'...
J. COLE For Black Music Month, I would definitely want to celebrate Isaac Hayes.
JUICY J I want to be like Bruce Springsteen or something, making songs that are relevant.
J. COLE I'm an artist, but I'm also a businesswoman, and sometimes you have to play hard.
JESSIE J I have calmed down my look. Is it really necessary to wear all that jewelry and makeup at 7 A.M.? Wh...
JESSIE J Time is the glue that bonds a broken heart, but love is the air which dries the glue. -J. Franklin.
J. FRANKLIN I had a rat-tail when I was younger. I had this nice Bobby Brown fade, with a rat-tail that was long...
J. COLE It's really important to me that my niece and nephews can come and see my show, as can my granda...
JESSIE J The moment you have in your heart this extraordinary thing called love and feel the depth, the delig...
J. KRISHNAMURTI Most books, like their authors, are born to die; of only a few books can it be said that death has n...
J. SWARTZ I see my music as Emotional Therapeutic Pop music that bleeds into loads of different genres.
JESSIE J People admire my confidence, but they never see me when I'm alone. That's when I'm the most raw beca...
J. MERRIDEW There will come a time in your life when you lose something that matters to you. You'll fight for it...
J. STERLING We are your friends. It is the law of friendship that you tell us things you don’t want to tell us...
J. LYNN Perfection is our goal, excellence will be tolerated.
J. YAHL