Chanel West Coast Quotes

When I do music, I do it for me and my fans.

I only do solo albums when songs are screaming at me to be let out of my mind.

I just love making music, and I wouldn't want to stop.

Well you know, I've been into music my whole life, so to be able to put an album together with some of that music was awesome.

I genuinely find the most meaningful thing I do is to make music, but also to absorb some sort of creativity.

Making music is fantastic.

I have a feeling a lot of the records I grew up listening to and the records I still like, as hard as musicians worked making them, I feel like they were really enjoying what they were going through. They weren't just going through the process. You can tell that with certain things that you listen to.

I write music people enjoy playing and listening to, and I have a group that loves playing the music.

You don't have to be singing specifically about things that are going on in your life, but because of the nature of music, because it is this incredibly emotional phenomenon, everything that you are feeling or experiencing is relayed in the music you put out.

I think it's important for fans to know that but if I'm doing something that inspires me musically then I think it will inspire someone else too.

When I get into the studio, I write from my heart.

I think if you're creating music, and you love the song, holding it back is just doing it an injustice.

Even as a little kid, I just loved to make my own music. So I loved singing, and I loved sharing it because it was a way to connect to people.

I feel like every record I've ever made, on some level, is urgent.

I felt like my mixtapes were me flirting with my fans.

At the end of the day, I just like to make the best music that I can make and put it out to the world and see how they respond to it.

People understand my message is positive, and at the end of the day, I'm just here to make music that I enjoy and that other people enjoy. I think that's why I have such a loyal fan base.

After I had my daughter, I kind of got comfortable with motherhood and had time to focus on something else then I started "Sailing Souls" with Fisticuffs, who produced the majority of the mixtape. I just wanted to put out something, like it wasnt really for, you know exposure or to get a deal or really anything like that.

I have always loved the process of making the music, reading the letters from the fans who get married to my music, have children to my music and play my music at their funerals.

All my songs are where I am.

I've been singing since I was two. Music was my first passion and I love writing, singing, creating and being creative.

That's when we decided to stop in '66. Everyone thought we toured for years, you know, but we didn't. I joined in '62, and we'd finished touring in '66 to go into the studio where we could hear each other... and create any fantasy that came out of anybody's brain.

At times, I will get in the studio and force myself to just write an entire front-to-back record, and 'Let Me Go' is one of these.

I've always made music that was representative of real life.

For me, how I feel about what I wrote down turns into a song.