JAMES Reid opened up about why he decided to step back from acting and focus on making music.
In an interview with The Juans, James shared that he committed his time to music because he wanted creative control.
“What I did crave was artistic expression. I didn’t want people to recognize me for my name or the fame. It was for the things that I did or that I created myself,” he said in the interview.
“I love acting. But sometimes after doing teleserye after teleserye, it gets repetitive and I felt like kind of robotic. I craved something that came from me that I can really express. I was just following instructions. It wasn’t feeding my soul,” James continued.
While pursuing music has been creatively fulfilling, the actor-singer admitted that it has been a more difficult path than acting.
“It was difficult for me to step away from all of that because I was in a very good place. But I stepped away from doing that and I chose something more difficult, which is something that I still had to grow in [such as] making music and production, writing songs,” he confessed.
James is the founder and the chairman of record label Careless.(Push)
