Patti LaBelle Quotes

I don't think songs have to be like these super-#1-smash-hit-sounding songs, because I think it's more important that it's like, 'Hey! This is coming out of me. This is something I connect with. This is something that I like to sing.'

The more people do hear my music, they do realize that I'm being true to myself. So there is that conflict, but I think more and more, people are realizing I'm just being me.

What I want people to take away from my music is that it's important to listen. Especially for young people, your opinion is the one that counts the most when it comes to your craft.

My concepts are never bright ideas; they're never notions I think will sell or be trendy or attract new fans. I don't think that way. All I can do is sing from my life.

Whether it be in acting, music, or even in dancing, I only want to do things that I truly connect to, and with my music, it's everything that I am.

My music is going to be true. I'm not out to sell records. I'm experiencing something, and it's what I feel.

One should never write down or up to people, but out of yourself.

I know that after my letter there will be undoubtedly an 'opinion' about me, but I am not afraid of it. I openly say what I think. Talent, of which we are proud, must not be submitted to the assaults of the past.

I always make music that is true to my spirit.

I'm actually just playing honest, whole young women.

As a songwriter, it's very hard to listen to music that's not coming from the heart and soul, personally.

I've always made music from the heart, and that's what I do.

Music is something that should speak for itself, straight from the heart. It took me a long time to understand that.

I would never agree to sing something I didn't feel was 100% me.

Until you love yourself, until you really believe that, you're stopped in your tracks. That's why it's so important to wear what you want to wear and be who you want to be.

You have to be unapologetically yourself. Once I was able to be proud of myself, it came across in my music really clearly.

Being a musician, it's my job to be real and be true to whoever I am. Hopefully that will inspire other people. I hope it inspires people to be themselves and be comfortable in your own skin.

You can pull off anything if you have the right attitude. Being cool is whatever you think it is. Own your style.

My music is me letting the world know how confident I am in myself, and me basically telling other women - and guys - how confident and how comfortable I believe they should be.

Don't be afraid to show off who you are.

I always wanted everyone to love me, probably because I didn't love myself enough. But now I realize that when you're an artist, you're making the music that's in your head and in your heart, and not for any other reason.

Self-expression is my goal, I want to be real with my feelings. Singing and dancing and all the joy that goes with performing come from my heart. If I can't feel it, I won't do it.

I knew what I didn't want, and I knew whatever it was going to be it had to be believable and it had to come from me and I had to drive it. The way I write is very honest and when I think of the music that I listened to growing up, I loved it because I believed it.

When I stopped hiding who I am, I started writing hits.

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.