Mj Rodriguez Quotes

As long as what you do reaches out to people, I don't think there's any reason to stop yourself from doing anything.

Art helped give me confidence.

Let the beauty of what you love be what you do.

I'm very humbled by the fact that I do have so much to say, and I just hope that my walk, my honesty, will make a difference for people and maybe motivate them.

For me, what's important is to be inspired and keep moving to grow as an artist and as a person.

I say it's easier to write for other people than write for myself.

I don't think about art when I'm working. I try to think about life.

Where the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art.

Music isn't what I do. It's who I am.

I just want to inspire my fans to be whoever they want to be, because that's what I've always done.

I am my own experiment. I am my own work of art.

I never like to think that I design for a particular person. I design for the woman I wanted to be, the woman I used to be, and - to some degree - the woman I'm still a little piece of.

At the typewriter you find out who you are.

I dance because I have to, because I'm so passionate about it.

I've always felt a bit of an outsider. It used to worry me that, in terms of TV, I did not look like 'the girlfriend' or 'the daughter'. That pushed me to write my own stuff, as I thought no one else was going to write me a lead in the sitcom.

Education brings about opportunity, and in turn inspiration.

I don't want to be super serious but I want to have fun with my platform. I want to touch people, I want to be relatable and let girls know that you can go to college and still pursue what you want after that.

When you talk about inspiration, I draw inspiration from life. The people that I work with.

I try to sprinkle a little gems and jewels in the music that people could use in their own life.

But I was always just having fun and out and about and working, doing whatever. But when I met Vogue is when something went off in my mind and I became a far more serious person. She makes me a much better version of myself.

You can be whoever you want to be when you are writing songs.

Even with the beauty stories we put out, we saw there was an opportunity to address issues of representation, identity, self-expression. We created the community that we wanted to have at 'Teen Vogue.' We were willing to lose some to have more.

When the work you're doing every single day is so directly about who you are as an individual and who you are as a person, it can be both exhausting and empowering in different moments.

My songs are about who I am.

Every day I meet people who have so much to give but have been...frighten ed enough to hold it back. It's time to stop complying with the system and draw your own map. You have brilliance in you, your contribution is essential, and the art you create is precious. Only you can do it, and you must.