Freya Ridings Quotes

I want to be free... free to develop my art.

I just wanted to do my own albums where nobody could tell me what to do. Roc Nation was the perfect fit because I could do what I wanted to do.

I've done a lot of collaboration over the years, but right now I'm enjoying writing by myself and just being me again for a while.

I think the line is where you're in the studio, you're creating. That belongs to you as an artist. Nothing should taint that. I shouldn't be thinking about what the fans want, I shouldn't be thinking about what the radio wants, what the label wants, what your manager wants, a song for the chicks, a song for the street.

Very few artists are as independent as I am mentally, physically, spiritually and technically. I sit in my home studio and record things by myself. I don't need to get anybody's approval or validation.

When I turned 19 I kinda realized that I needed to write my own songs instead of singing songs written by other people.

If I'm going to go out to be a solo artist, it's because I want to do something different without having to wait on someone else's schedule or hobbies or be limited by other people's prejudices. I'd be kind of stupid not to exercise that.

I'm not entangled in shaping my work according to other people's views of how I should have done it.

I don't want to be owned by a corporation and obliged to make a certain type of album. I want to be free.

People tell you the world looks a certain way. Parents tell you how to think. Schools tell you how to think. TV. Religion. And then at a certain point, if you're lucky, you realize you can make up your own mind. Nobody sets the rules but you. You can design your own life.

One of the advantages of not having a record contract is that you can make your own mistakes, you don't need somebody else to organize them for you.

I do love being solo because I can have more of my own creative input to every aspect of my career.

Finally, I was no longer a student and was making music for myself.

I think it's so important as an actor that you hang on to your own inner compass, because so many people want to guide you - 'This is what you should you be doing'. But I want to do different things.

I feel that, as an actor, you're constantly working to become better, which I love, but with painting, I can fail on my own terms. There's a freedom in that, so that's why I love to paint.

I don't want to be labeled one thing. My main thing I care about is being able to create the things I want to do with my friends, whatever platform that is.

I just love the idea of going into a room and creating something by myself.

Leaving Def Jam was kind of a blessing in disguise because we can make whatever record we want.

My father has never once asked me a question, any question. There's a freedom that came from that. It allowed me to create my own way of thinking.

I don't ask other actors questions. I think that's too intrusive. I just watch. I don't want to be constricted to an idea of what acting is by anyone else. I want to take my own education.

I specifically did not read other First Ladies' books, because I didn't want to be influenced by how they defined the role. I knew that I would have to find this role - very uniquely and specifically to me and who I was.

I've had a lot of voices tell me what I should be making. Personally, I would much rather live and die by my own hand. If my stuff sucks, then at least I made it suck. I didn't allow some person, some old dude in a suit, to make it suck for me.

I didn't have time to be anybody's muse; I was too busy rebelling against my parents and learning to be an artist.

The only place where any artist feels liberated is doing independent music. I have had great experience making music for The Dewarists and Coke Studio. No actor, producer or label is telling me what to do with my music. I'm the boss. It is my life, my expression.

I'm glad that in this sport you can write your own stories, and you don't have to worry about what other people expect out of you.