If you ever feel comfortable in what you're producing, you've lost. You're not alive, that's it, it's stagnant water.
Kate TempestThere's enough brackets put on us already, we don't need to bracket our creativity anymore than we do.
Kate TempestYour job is to facilitate and improve your capacity so that when an idea comes you can facilitate it. That's your job as a human being, in my opinion anyway.
Kate TempestThe more you close the doors, the less free your ideas can come, and they come from up here and come through you.
Kate TempestThe minute you finish a piece of writing it doesn't belong to you, you don't write it any more, it belongs to you, the reader, the listener, the audience. So the less you know about whether or not this is me talking about my life or this is me talking about your life, I think the better. Then it can belong to you and it can live outside of the moment in which it was conceived.
Kate Tempest