Princess Nokia Quotes

At some point in my life, before I was gone, I wanted to make an album, even if it was for no reason other than posterity.

I began the process of recording myself seriously in the fall of 1999. If I could finish an album of my own music, I would. Five years later I am happy to say I have.

I just always wanted to write my own album and play my own music.

I started EWF because I had a vision, and music was playing in my head that I wanted to bring through. What I had in mind was exactly what Earth, Wind & Fire became.

I'm always working on my own music, too. I've been working on a record for a few years.

At times, I will get in the studio and force myself to just write an entire front-to-back record, and 'Let Me Go' is one of these.

I was trying to do the same thing that I always do which is make an interesting record.

I started teaching myself guitar because I loved singing so much. Then one day kind of out of the blue I found I was writing a song. It just happened organically.

I want to create a thousand paintings, maybe two thousand paintings, as many as I can draw.

Sometimes before we make a record I go back and listen to a few. It's equally humbling and uplifting.

To me, music shouldn't be ego-driven. When you go out on stage and play songs, it is. But when you're sitting in a room, writing songs, it's a completely different process. It's a completely different place. It's a creative place, a musical place. It has nothing to do with who likes what.

As a producer, I'm trying to challenge myself to just make something that is of a professional quality - not necessarily pop music, but maybe in the sense that Nine Inch Nails is professional quality.

Nothing is more rewarding than to take a song, create it out of thin air and then watch it affect people.

I just wrote one song at a time. Kinda like an alcoholic. One day at a time.

My main thing is just to keep writing. I've been doing some songwriting that's for my own record, I suppose.

So the thing is to put out music for music's sake.

Well you know, I've been into music my whole life, so to be able to put an album together with some of that music was awesome.

I am a musician. I didn't know I would be so when I was young. I do know that I have always heard music in my head that I wasn't hearing somewhere else and I 'needed' this music. And obedient to the laws of nature, I created into this vacuum.

I have tried, in all the ways I can, to make timeless music.

I just wanted to go out and make a record that I've always wanted to make since I was a kid.

I wrote my first song at 6. I spent every day with the guitar, and I just made up songs.

I started writing songs at age 15.

I've done a lot of albums and I kinda know when I'm onto something that was inspirational for me to record and create, and this was one of those projects where I really enjoyed making the album.

I have writing songs on my own for about six years.

I'd love to do my own music for sure. I'd love to have a band.