Andrea Thompson Quotes

I think the line is where you're in the studio, you're creating. That belongs to you as an artist. Nothing should taint that. I shouldn't be thinking about what the fans want, I shouldn't be thinking about what the radio wants, what the label wants, what your manager wants, a song for the chicks, a song for the street.

I like to make the music that I really love. You're supposed to make your favorite music that no one else played, and I'd like to just keep it at that and not really change it at all.

If art is singular expression, then by nature, the best art is controversial. But when art stirs debate for reasons besides its artistic integrity, that's when things get bent.

I'm American. I'm eclectic. I'm going to follow my musical passions. And if people don't like it, and it hurts my legacy, I'm not going to worry about that.

But as long as you're creating the art you want to create, if people start liking you, you shouldn't have to apologize. You want your stuff to be heard by as many people as possible.

For a long time, censors have been cutting my works. This makes me so sad, because many times they will tell me, 'Television won't like, so we have to cut, cut, cut!'

If you start to just aim for what the audience wants to hear, you're already hamstrung because you don't have any freedom.

I'm not an artist who has an agenda that's set by the work.

You have to do what you need to do as an artist. You have to have that courage.

I just wanted to be an artist. I didn't care how or what; I just wanted to express my artistic integrity, and I wanted the world to have a vision of what I was seeing in my mind.

Art is something to be proud of. Art is no compromise.

The fun of being in the pop world is you can really play with people's perceptions of what the word pop means.

I don't feel that as an artist my job is to offer PR propaganda, whether for the good or for the bad.

The artist is not responsible to any one. His social role is asocial... his only responsibility consists in an attitude to the work he does.

I have nothing to hide in art. The initial force alone can bring anyone to the end he must attain.

I never want to be in a position where I have to defend my material. It's too subjective. It's for other people to defend or not defend.

Self-censorship is a lie to yourself; if you are going to be trying to seriously create art, to create literary art, and you decide to hold back, to censor yourself, then you are a fool to yourself and it would be better that you kept your mouth shut and did not speak.

I think every artist should follow their vision, their hearts is what they need to reveal, not something that society is looking out for.

The most important thing for me as an artist is having an identity.

Aishwarya, my parent's daughter, has been brought up with enough values inculcated where I will use my discretion in my choices. At the same time, I recognize I am an actor, I am an artist, and if I feel the need to be liberated and do the kind of work I need to do, I will.

Either you live by the barometer of the music critics, or you live by your own. I choose the latter.

If you look at my career... I couldn't possibly have chosen those subjects if I was thinking, 'That's a great commercial idea.' I'm not aware of a great musical where someone has done that.

Stand up for yourself and fight for your right to be the artist that you want to be. There's plenty of pressure from outside; people tell you how to dress and how to sing or what to sing, but I always felt like if I'm going to fail or succeed, I want to do it on my own terms.

I'm just trying to work out a way to be a singer and to create cool content. I'm willing to do that as an entertainer. But I'm not willing to give up my actual self.

I would never tell someone else how to use their platform, because I think I'm much more comfortable allowing the work that I do to speak for itself.