Carlene Carter Quotes

I can't put anything out that's not me.

I'm totally open to exploring different types of music. I just have to always remember to be true to who I am.

I mean, if I was living to please people, I'd have never been in a band at all. I wouldn't have anything awesome around. I'd just be bored.

I write lustily and humorously. It isn't calculated; it's the way I think. I've invented a writing style that expresses who I am.

My style is all to myself.

During 'Hawthorne', I was constantly trying not to be too outrageous and keep it serious. This has been so refreshing for me because it's such a good outlet for the inner me to just be. That's the whole point of 'Glee' anyways - to just be who you are and that's enough. I really feel that way on set.

To be a true artist, I have to be true to who I am now and write that way.

Living creatively is really important to maintain throughout your life. And living creatively doesn't mean only artistic creativity, although that's part of it. It means being yourself, not just complying with the wishes of other people.

I've never tried to be something I'm not.

The one thing that you have that nobody else has is you. Your voice, your mind, your story, your vision. So write and draw and build and play and dance and live as only you can.

Since the beginning, I have always tried to just be me. There have been moments in my career as a YouTuber where I've recognized that I'm trying to emulate something else, or I'm being heavily influenced by a YouTuber or something like that, and I realize that's not what I want to be putting out.

I don't have to compete in the charts. I can just be myself as a musician, a songwriter and play with the musicians that I really love.

This is what really makes real jazz musicians: people coming out with their own voice.

I think that, as artists, all we can do is be who we are. I think that if we do that, then we're automatically not anyone else.

I want to be an artist. I don't want to be a celebrity.

You just have to be yourself and make music you feel from your gut, and hopefully, your audience will respond.

All artists are equal when they are themselves.

I'ma just rap and do me.

To me, that's what music entails. It's freedom, it's having the undeniable confidence to express yourself in a way that you know is right.

I wanted what I was doing to be really true to me and my tastes. That's what 'Worlds' was, me taking a break from what I was doing and doing something that was honest, authentic and real.

Music should not be a contest, it should be an individual thing that each band is putting out from within themselves.

As a performer, the thing you want the most is to be your authentic self.

The courage to be yourself is the essence of hip hop

So the most natural thing to me is to stay as pure to or real to or close to who I am as possible.

I think my secret would have to be just being true to who I am and just being myself.