Kesha Quotes

In my music, I'm never going to force anything to try to recreate a moment or something.

I do not correct my first imaginings by my second--well, yes, perhaps a word or so, but only to vary, not to delete. I want to represent the course of my humors and I want people to see each part at its birth.

When I go onstage, I don't know what I'm going to say. I don't know what's going to come out of my mouth. It's one of those questions where any and everything is possible. I literally could be talking about somebody I was hanging out with two seconds ago or something from the news. Literally, there's really no rhyme or reason for it. I want to be free flowing like that.

I love improvising.

Most of the time I'm thinking, I'm glad that scene was improvised.

I think it's important to really press on with the song writing and just go with it. There's no code, there's no craft... it's just let yourself shine through your music. If it's meant to be loved and heard, it'll happen.

It was liberating to do comedy. It felt like playing in a jazz band.

I play as I feel.

More of me comes out when I improvise.

I can't ad-lib, or not for long.

I think too many people edit themselves way too soon. There's plenty of time to edit, and it is a crucial part of it all, too.

The word got out that I can ad-lib very well.

I don't even think about maintaining a relevance. I just think about what do I want to paint, what am I gonna do now, what am I gonna do later.

You can't ever create defensively. You just have to create the next thing that really speaks to you.

As soon as you start to think of that thing that you want to convey or say, you can always just say it much better than you can actually rhyme it or stuff it into a song. It's very, very difficult to just kind of get your point across without going the back way. And you have to be good at that, to not think about things so hard. Let the pen take over, so that it's somebody else's job to dissect the lyrics and tell you what you're all about.

I love the joy in the improvisational creative process.

Jazz to me is the spirit of freedom. I mean real freedom. Freedom to explore. Freedom to express. Freedom to pour out your guts.

Express yourself, put stuff down on tape, and see what lives.

Don't be afraid to take liberties with this music. Try and put some of yourself into it.

I take my craft seriously, of course, but I don't feel the need to always play a certain character or a certain part or persona. I'm not going to cut something out of my life because it's not 'my image.' I want to be open enough that if I love something, I can do it, and it will add to myself as an entertainer.

I'm definitely using different parts of myself, but I think when it comes down to words and melodies, I can't really force anything too much.

No, I don't make my work in order to challenge or confuse other people's expectations - I only do what I find natural.

I'm a believer in just open, free-form creativity, and you never know the surprises that life has in store, and that, purely on a creative level, there's no such thing as rules.

It is almost impossible to reconcile self expression with the creative act.

I like acting when I can pick my own roles, and I do. It's fun. I like being creative, and it's a creative process.