Jillian Rose Banks Quotes

There's no separation between electronic music and acoustic music. It's all one thing. Each song has its own heartbeat. Each song has its own soul.

- Jillian Rose Banks

Soul, Song, Own, Heartbeat

I like a kind of dark, bronze-y brown smoky eye with maybe some mascara, some contouring and stuff, but I don't like wearing black or pinks. I like it more tonal.

- Jillian Rose Banks

Some, Like, Smoky, Brown

It's a big thing in my music to highlight being human - being emotional and powerful, like a goddess.

- Jillian Rose Banks

Goddess, Big, Like, Highlight

A wounded healer, I think, is a lot more powerful than a healer that has not been wounded. In 'Weaker Girl,' I was coming from a wounded healer's perspective.

- Jillian Rose Banks

Think, Healer, Wounded, Weaker

Every human is so layered. And 'Brain,' that theme is about - I'm just such a sensitive person, and I can pick up people's energies.

- Jillian Rose Banks

Brain, Sensitive, About, Energies

I just think it looks so cool when a woman has a dirty martini. She looks so powerful.

- Jillian Rose Banks

Think, She, Dirty, Martini

I have a memory of listening to Tracy Chapman and just being intrigued by her voice. Even as a young girl, I wanted to know more about her and her story. I felt I was learning about her through her music. That was a revelation to me.

- Jillian Rose Banks

Memory, Voice, Through, Intrigued

I feel like my dream animal would be a mermaid that could fly and also live in the trees. She has a nest, almost like a bird. She feeds her babies like a bird, like, chews the food first and then feeds it to them through her mouth.

- Jillian Rose Banks

Through, Feel, Almost, Nest

Real pain hurts so bad. When you've gone through something and you've overcome it, you're able to heal other people.

- Jillian Rose Banks

Pain, Through, Other, Heal

I think, probably when I was 15 or so, I was going through a really hard time with my family, and I just felt really helpless - I didn't know how to put anything I was feeling into words, and I was really confused, and I felt like nobody would hear me, but I didn't even know what to say.

- Jillian Rose Banks

Through, I Think, Put, Helpless

My music is 100-percent me, so it's just who I developed into as a woman. I feel really grateful that I waited until I did because I feel like I really found who I was by doing that.

- Jillian Rose Banks

Grateful, Woman, Doing, Waited

Twitter and those platforms just didn't feel natural to me.

- Jillian Rose Banks

Me, Natural, Twitter, Platforms

James Blake, Jai Paul, Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs, Sohn, Kwabs, Sampha, Lil Silva, and Brandy, always. They all have soul. Deep soul.

- Jillian Rose Banks

Deep, Soul, Always, Blake

One of my favorite things is to try delicious different fruits from different places, in Japan or other places that have different fruits you can't get in the States.

- Jillian Rose Banks

Other, Different Places, Favorite Things

I like wearing oils. Perfume makes me nauseous sometimes. It's too strong.

- Jillian Rose Banks

Strong, Like, Too, Oils

I feel more comfortable being confrontational and authoritative. It's important for women in this business.

- Jillian Rose Banks

Business, Authoritative, Confrontational

L.A. is a really good home base. I've grown up here, and so sometimes I have wanderlust even though I tour. You think it would be cured by touring, but sometimes I feel like I want to be somewhere else.

- Jillian Rose Banks

Sometimes, Feel, Here, Base

Fashion is a huge part of music and of who you are. It really sets the mood for a show, and it's fun to play around with it. You can get really creative in photo shoots as well. You know, just having fun with it.

- Jillian Rose Banks

Play, Mood, Part, Photo Shoots

With 'Someone New', I was at my rawest, and I didn't want to cover it up. And same with 'You Should Know' and 'Under the Table.' I wanted it to be the lyrics and the chord progressions, and the intricacies of the guitar of 'Someone New' are so delicate, sometimes that's all you need.

- Jillian Rose Banks

Sometimes, Cover, Delicate, Table

I'm just gonna keep growing as an artist, and I'm excited to work with different people and learn from all these other talented, creative people that I've been around. It's so inspiring to be around other people who have ideas you haven't thought of, and all of a sudden you're like, 'Wow! That's so amazing!'

- Jillian Rose Banks

Thought, Other, Been, Wow

I think social media is an interesting beast - you can't get too caught up in it. People can get caught up in it sometimes, but I think it's important to live in the present and not on the computer screen.

- Jillian Rose Banks

Think, Caught, I Think, Social Media

Social media overwhelms me.

- Jillian Rose Banks

Me, Media, Social, Social Media

I like feeling fresh and having really dewy skin. I like feeling moisturized and having a good brow.

- Jillian Rose Banks

Like, Having, Brow, Fresh

I like Australia, but every time I'm there, I feel like everybody's being sarcastic because everyone's so nice.

- Jillian Rose Banks

Everyone, Like, Everybody, Sarcastic

When I do things that don't feel pure or make any moves that I don't feel like represent me or who I am, it makes me feel like I wanna throw up. So I just do me, and I guess people just take that how they do.

- Jillian Rose Banks

Feel, How, Pure, Represent

Making music is an emotional thing. And when you're on a video shoot with 50 people there, you have to somehow, in a non-emotional way, say what you want and not feel guilty for it. And that takes growing up and that takes... not caring how people perceive you as much. And it just takes experience, I think.

- Jillian Rose Banks

Feel, I Think, Video, Not Caring

I get so many questions in interviews about feminism, and I think the second you start separating femininity and masculinity and giving one more power than the other, that's like - everyone is a person.

- Jillian Rose Banks

Questions, Other, I Think, Femininity

Femininity can be a powerful thing.

- Jillian Rose Banks

Powerful, Thing, Femininity

What people would qualify as R&B is, for me, just soul. And I love honesty and soul and heavy, crunchy beats that move you and make you breathe a little bit faster.

- Jillian Rose Banks

Love, Soul, Move, Breathe

I haven't even had to learn, but it's just this natural thing to be able to express any emotion I have through the tone of my voice.

- Jillian Rose Banks

Voice, Natural, Through, Natural Thing

It feels really good that people are connecting to my music so much.

- Jillian Rose Banks

Music, Good, Feels, Connecting

I've felt real pain, and sometimes I channel the exhale coming out of that to write, and those are the songs that give me the most power and the most strength.

- Jillian Rose Banks

Strength, Pain, Give, Real Pain

I think doing things that scare you a little is a good thing. A little bit of fear is never a bad thing. A healthy amount of fear makes everything taste better.

- Jillian Rose Banks

Doing, Think, Amount, Bad Thing

On tour, there's dry shampoo - I use the one by Bed Head.

- Jillian Rose Banks

Bed, Head, Shampoo, Tour

Growing up, I listened to a lot of everything - I fell in love with music, when I discovered people like Lauryn Hill and Tracy Chapman, people whose voices I could really feel, people with a lot of soul. That's what I'm drawn to as a musician: Anybody that has their own voice and their own point of view.

- Jillian Rose Banks

Love, Voice, Discovered, Musician

I have a really feminine voice, but I also feel quite powerful when I write. So my songs feel heavy, and that's how Banks sounds. It's a really short, powerful sound. It almost sounds masculine, and I like having that dichotomy.

- Jillian Rose Banks

Voice, Feminine, I Write, Heavy

There are definitely a lot of creative people I want to work with. I wanna work with Drake!

- Jillian Rose Banks

Work, Lot, Definitely, Wanna

I definitely drink lots of water. I use this Decleor Neroli Oil to moisturize - no matter what the climate is, it always makes my skin really moist.

- Jillian Rose Banks

Always, Use, Makes, Climate

I found music when I was very dark. I felt unheard, with inner dialogues that I didn't know how to express.

- Jillian Rose Banks

Very, Felt, Unheard, Inner

I want people to feel the times where they don't feel good. You should dive into those emotions, because that's what I do with my music.

- Jillian Rose Banks

Emotions, Want, Feel, Dive

Once I discovered music and that you don't need to just use words but can add a growl to the melody, that releases so much more. I never want to make music for any other reason.

- Jillian Rose Banks

Reason, Add, Discovered, Melody

It's a powerful thing to be able to write a song. Even the least powerful feeling - like insecurity - that makes you feel weak when you experience it, when you write about it, you are powerful.

- Jillian Rose Banks

Song, Like, Least, Insecurity

I listened to pretty much anything that I could really feel, where I felt like the artist had to write those songs, where you can feel their soul and the pain and the happiness and love and everything.

- Jillian Rose Banks

Love, Pain, Pretty, Listened

The song 'Stick'? That needed to be chunky and sexy. It's human. It's human to be the girl in 'Stick' and feel spicy as heck.

- Jillian Rose Banks

Sexy, Song, Needed, Heck

My approach to beauty is all about moods. If you want to feel sexy, if you want to feel feminine or, I don't know, boyish - it's all about how you feel at that point in time. My mood changes.

- Jillian Rose Banks

Beauty, Mood, Feminine, Boyish

My music is inspired by my life: the people in my life, the people I have relationships with, the people I love, the people that make me feel something.

- Jillian Rose Banks

Love, My Life, Feel, Inspired

'Before I Ever Met You' was the first one to come out and that just dives into the grit, and it's pretty graphic about a relationship. For my first song, it was very special the way it happened, because I didn't really hold anything back, and people responded to it.

- Jillian Rose Banks

Before, Very, About, Graphic

I think every person is so unique. I think every woman is so unique, every man is so unique, every artist is so unique.

- Jillian Rose Banks

Woman, Think, I Think, Every Man

My identity started developing through the songs I was writing.

- Jillian Rose Banks

Identity, Through, Songs, Developing

The most personal thing about me is my music. The most honest, pure thing in my whole life.

- Jillian Rose Banks

Music, Most, About, Pure

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