Owen King Quotes

I want to be my own artist and reflect my creativity.. I don't want to be turned into a pop princess; that's not who I am.

I'm certainly not who people think I am. I always do whatever I want to do, and my films are personal to 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 wanted to be myself. Only myself.

I feel like the point of being an artist is to have your own voice: to do it the way you would do it and not the way anyone else would do it. If you're a strong enough writer, then that voice is going to come out all the time, and I can't stop it from coming out, no matter what I do.

I'm trying to have my own thing, and I don't know if it's even possible. I didn't realize so many people actually think I'm trying to be like my dad. I read comments like 'She's no Elvis.' I'm not trying to be. I never set out to be.

I never tried to emulate my father. Anyone trying to do that would be a second-rate carbon copy.

Whenever someone says I'm the next Oprah, I always respond, 'Child, there's only one Mahogany, and only one Oprah.' There are no others.

To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.

I didn't think it was fair to my music to label me as the daughter of somebody - I didn't think it described me very well and I didn't think it had anything to do with my music.

If you're trying to please everyone, then you're not going to make anything that is honestly yours, I don't think, in the long run.

I believe in a kind of fidelity to your own early ideas; it's a kind of antagonism in me to prevailing fads.

I don't think nobody should compare me to anyone, 'cause, at the end of the day, you've got a 'Pac, you've got Snoop, you got Tip, you got Wayne - there's only one Jeezy, man. Ain't nobody walked in these shoes but me.

I wanted to come through with my own voice and, hopefully, have it affect people. I want people to know that I'm not an Elvis impersonator.

Being yourself is one of the greatest things you can possibly do. Being true to yourself.

It's good to please the network, but you really just have to tell the stories you want to tell, and if you try to please other people, it ends up starting to water stuff down. Those decisions we have to make are hard, but we usually just err on the side of 'What would we want to see?'

I never wanted to be a feature - that was never the goal with my music. I didn't want to just live through other people's work.

I can only say that I myself wrote always as I wished, without a tremendous desire to find the latest thing possible.

Back in the day, I used to get really upset when people used to say that I didn't really make all my own things - like my art or my videos or whatever. I work really hard on everything, so it used to upset me when people would try to discredit me or say that I wouldn't have what I had without this person or that person.

All my life, I wanted to sound like myself. I never wanted to sound like anybody else.

I just look to be myself. I'm not trying to be nobody. I'm just trying to be the first Zion.

I find the idea that some kids go into acting because of their parents butt-clenchingly embarrassing. I've gone out of my way to prove myself as a separate being. I don't want to be seen as a subset of someone else.

I can only do music if I can do it the way I can do it.

I would tell my younger self not to change for anyone. There's only one you, which makes you unique.

All I believe in is, you need to be yourself.