Dionne Warwick Quotes

I don't dismiss the music that I was involved with, I don't think it was a joke, I don't think it was funny or a phase, I don't think it was just something I was doing back then, to me it was who I am. It connects all the way through. I don't distance myself from any of it.

I wondered how people would take me being a country music singer. I thought about deviating from that and singing other things. But... it doesn't really make sense for me to try to be something that I'm not.

I always put my best into our live performances and most of all it is always important for us to keep true to what we do as BABYMETAL.

I just think I want my work to represent me fully.

I always felt like I could combine good pop songs that are easy for people to like with a real person and a real mind and integrity.

Love the art in yourself and not yourself in the art.

It's such a hard thing to write a song for your fans without sounding naff and thanking them for spending money on you.

All I can do is focus on staying true to the style of music I write and sing because that is the only way it's going to come off as honest.

Don't shift because fashion has shifted. Don't move from the original ethic you had, the original reasons. They're part and parcel of you.

If a man is not faithful to his own individuality, he cannot be loyal to anything.

I just wanted to keep consistent and keep true to America and not seem contrived. I didn't want to seem contrived at all with any song choice that might be a detriment to my journey on 'The Voice.'

You get a lot of who you are as a musician across through the music you write. If you're writing your own music, then it's important to be really honest.

I think the illest thing about Wiz Khalifa is how true to himself he's always been, and I miss that from artists. Nothing about what he does ever felt like he was reaching to be something that he wasn't.

The only people who have doubts about the sincerity of my music are people who come to it relatively late, off the back of having seen me in a film. Acting is about being other people, and music is about being myself.

I have a repertoire of songs that I'm proud of, that I've written for my own band. When I do a cover, something that somebody else has written, I think about it very carefully before I sing that song. I have to really get behind it and understand it and like it. And that's how I pick roles. I don't want to play just anything.

You can't intellectually purge yourself of who you are. Whatever that is, it's going to come out in the wash, the film wash. What you are is going to be relevant, if not to yourself, to the movies you make.

You have to be who you are when you do music.

I've always wanted to be accepted by country music fans - without lying.

Since day one my thing has always been to play the music.

Backstreet Boys have an international fan base, and fans love what we do. I didn't want to be one of those artists that does something totally different so people would ask, 'Why did he do that?' Is he not proud?'

I'm not committed to putting myself up for a blues guitarist, even though I love playing the blues.

I have always stayed true to my craft.

As an artist, you need to be true to yourself and free and not put yourself in a box that contradicts with what you feel is needed for a song.

The true Hank III fans want me to be me.

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