Karen Elson Quotes

There hasn't been one moment in my career where I felt I didn't have any control over the creative aspects of my records.

The music I turn out these days is the kind of music I want to hear myself.

I mean, I think about it, but I don't design my record to get a certain public response.

I think if you're able to make the music you want and you can do it in the right kind of context, you don't have to be a circus ringleader to be successful.

I'm an artist, and I go in the studio and make my music. And then I'll give it to my dad and he does what he does. And he does, you know, the press, and figuring out shows and whatnot. When it comes to my artistic freedom, he doesn't, like, step on my toes or anything.

Sometimes being an actor is being a song in someone else's mixtape, so I really understand why more and more actors are making films of their own.

My job is to just express something that I want to express. And if I'm ahead or behind the curve, that's for others to decide.

I never had many problems to do my music and to give it to a record company. Rarely do they try to argue with me about my music, probably because it's still too far-out.

I think actors are at the mercy of the opportunities presented to them. So you kind of have to wait for them to choose you. My music is insular - I can choose that.

My goal was, and still is, to write first, direct my own stuff whenever possible and control my own creative destiny.

I've just been learning how to direct my own videos, choreography, doing costumes... every creative opportunity there is with my music I've taken.

Any artist picks and chooses what they want to paint or write about or say. Photographers are the same.

I'm not a slave to the recording industry. I have the freedom to make an album that I want to make and do it the way I want.

I mean, at the end of the day when I'm making a record, what I want to do is what I do.

Movies are a team sport now, and I want to play singles.

I want to be able to manipulate and control my career from the creative side.

I think that was the whole idea behind doing the solo record was to be able to do musically whatever I wanted to do.

I was backstage in Paris and saw Cindy Crawford doing House Of Style. I thought, I would love to to be in control of my career.

I made my new album 'Colour Me Free!' in a week with my own money.

I love the creative process, of getting to create your own show or your own movie, whatever it is you want to do, and have the resources to try and make that happen.

I've been wanting to produce for some time because I want to have more creative control over the things that I do and not be victim to the whims of other people's desires.

I'm gonna make my records, whether I release them as Bleachers or something else.

I wrote a play that I directed and I was in, and I paid for the sets and the costumes and to put it up in a theater all through modeling. It really afforded me a lot of creative control in my life.

It's great to be able to find a way to release your music and do what you want to do artistically and not have to just worry about being accepted by the major label industry.

I've always been hands on with my music and my movement.