Alice Merton Quotes

In my first label Shrapnel Records I wasn't expected to do anything except the creative music that I wanted to do. I was my own boss, which is great.

I've experienced a lot of creative freedom because I'm on a family label. It was nice to put out what I wanted to say and do what I wanted to do.

I really enjoy the creative freedom that I get when I produce my own projects.

I really have to feel a sense of freedom in my storytelling.

I don't have to ask anyone's permission to do anything. It's nice not have to get decisions out of three, sometimes four people, which can be like pulling teeth. So the amount of control that I have over what I'm doing is better for me as a solo artist.

I want to do what I want when I want to do it not be dictated to by audiences.

I can't do anything I want to. I mean, I can't have my own TV show. I can't have my own movie. But within my little world, nobody tells me what to put on the albums.

You're not a slave to those test audiences.

To be free and to live a free life - that is the most beautiful thing there is.

I'm making the music I want to make, in my own space, and it's just incredible to be able to continue to do that.

I'm a free spirit.

I've always been very much attracted to a character that's actually free.

It's nice to have the creative freedom to write about whatever and no longer feeling those restrictions I had when I was 15.

I've avoided situations where I wouldn't have creative freedom.

I'm always just gonna do whatever I want. I don't feel any pressure to appeal to anyone in particular.

I just want to feel free. If someone feels inspired by it, then fine.

I like to be a free soul.

When you make music on your own for so long, you get used to just doing whatever you want.

I just feel such freedom to do whatever. If a song's seven minutes or ten minutes long, then so be it - it's that long.

We must be free, but to have real freedom, you must be wild and free yourself.

I like to be a free spirit. Some don't like that, but that's the way I am.

Everything in my career is my decision - every picture, every outfit. You get one chance at this, and I never saw myself as being a puppet.

A free spirit takes liberties even with liberty itself.

My mom was a free spirit, and she brought me up to be a free spirit.

Well, since I produce and pay for my own albums, it is the ultimate freedom.