Audra McDonald Quotes

I just do what I'm here for and that's to make that music.

I'm still a kid in his bedroom, writing songs and playing them.

I feel like my music has become a lot of things. It's hard to label the evolution, but I like there to be an evolution. I just like to paint with all different kinds of colors.

Music is as vast as the sky, the oceans, the universe.

I have always made music with passion, love and honesty.

I've always had an instrument attached to my body.

Ice Cube is the piece of me that I give away to the public.

Don't play the saxophone. Let it play you.

I consider myself a composer.

I feel like 'Next To Me' is a great introduction because it's a simple song that has a simple message for me. I wanted to introduce something that lyrically I'm proud of and introduces me both as an artist and as a writer.

I wanted to be that quirky girl who writes funny songs that still have meaning.

Poetry is a sort of homecoming.

After I left the Pumpkins, I went home and just sat around. I have a studio in my basement, and I found myself writing all these songs, just taking advantage of the relaxed situation. I wrote about 30 songs in about 30 days.

Music's always been a big part of my life, but it kind of all happened in one big ball of storytelling rather than splitting acting and singing apart.

All I ever want to do is what I am: a singer.

That creates the magic, and that's the wonderment of the musical process and how precious that is.

What we play is life.

What I have to do as a musician is do everything that is not on the music.

And more than anything, I like the improvisation of jazz. That's the same thing with DJ-ing. There's so much improvisation you can do with cuttin' and scratchin' that's reminiscent of jazz music, because it's all about how you feel. You're capturing a vibe and just going with it.

Where I've been hasn't influenced my music. It's more what I listen to. You can find music everywhere, so moving hasn't really influenced my music, more me as a person.

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

I sang throughout school, and it was always my passion. For whatever reason, acting took the front seat, but all of the projects that I've been doing seem to have some sort of musical element to them.

Stephen Sondheim I am in awe of.

I didn't really know what I was doing when I started. I just started writing songs. After two songs I just continued to explore it.

I guess for me what is more significant than success is the nature of each of the songs and of the words.