Christine and the Queens Quotes

As an independent artist, you control the means of production, which is the ultimate form of empowerment.

I didn't come to Hollywood to be subservient to anyone else's vision.

I'm not interested so much in collaboration. You see that from the history of my albums.

What I learned from the Beastie Boys was to be independent. They set up their own world separate from the label. They built their own studio.

I am an independent film-maker first and foremost. I have always cut my own cloth.

I took the process of doing as much myself as I could like a duck to water. I set up my own label and publishing, etc, and it was a fun learning curve two decades ago.

I don't necessarily love all the collaborations that I've done; the more I work with other people, the more I realize that I want to work with myself.

I didn't want to just be an artist and let someone else have all that control over me. I knew I would have to produce.

I don't have to worry about what the average record company person thinks because I am the record company person.

I'm building my own brand outside of the Peas. It's not Black Eyed Peas, it's Zumbao. Zumbao is different from the Peas because it's all on me and I can't feed off of anybody other than me.

I don't wait on the music industry to qualify me or give me my paycheck. I go about my business as an artist and I believe that my value is in my product and in my art form, and that's why I can't be stopped, because I began producing my record by myself, without a record company.

I usually don't work with other people; I do the whole show myself.

I'm not going to wait on anybody to put out music or a visual. Everything I will do is on my own. I'm not waiting on anyone.

I like my work to stand on its own as much as possible.

I always thought that if record companies didn't understand me, fine - I'd go and do it by myself.

For me, a writer should be more like a lighthouse keeper, just out there by himself. He shouldn't get his ideas from other people all around him.

Without any assistance whatever, I founded a school in Weimar in 10 years. Only I could perform certain works with the scanty means that I dared not ask anyone else to work with.

I don't care what the public wants, I'm going to give it what it needs!

Even though I wasn't sure I could make it as an indie, almost immediately I felt as if a weight had been lifted off me. To be as independent as I am and to be able to support myself is incredibly satisfying. Everything I want to do myself, I can.

The joy about the recording is that you are your own boss. You don't have a director telling you how to do it.

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 got into the music industry, I wasn't focused on being the most famous artist or even getting a major record deal. It was just to make music on my own terms or create my own image, do my own hair, do my own makeup.

I won't work on anyone's else's script. I won't write for anyone else. I write my own stuff and make that when the time is right.

My primary lesson, however, was that I'm a solo writer, happiest when I'm making all the executive decisions. I've always been willing to rise or fall on my own merits.

I don't think DIY is something that necessarily comes to mind when people hear Third Eye Blind, but that is completely how we've been from the beginning.