Steven Patrick Morrissey Quotes

I never envisioned myself as a solo artist; I was always part of a band.

I always saw myself as a singer-songwriter, a solo-artist, that's why working with other artists was never satisfying for me.

When I'm sick of myself, and when I don't know what to say as a solo artist, I can write a song for a movie. When I don't know where to turn musically, being in a band - Rilo Kiley or Jenny & Johnny - the collaborative nature is really exciting.

I mean, being a solo artist is very different than being a member of a band. It's absolutely different. The whole situation is very different - situations where you can't really compare, it's so very different. But I found happiness.

Actually, the whole thing of being a solo artist has been such a learning process for me. Since I departed from my previous band, NIGHTWISH, it was the whole beginning of my career, there was stuff in the air. I had to learn so much.

Everyone has their own journey, and for me, going from singing background to writing songs has truly opened doors for me and has also helped me find myself as an artist in terms of what I want to say and the style of music I want to have.

I'm solo, and I love being solo. I believe I went through the Roses so I could become a solo music-maker. That's what I believe.

It took me a long time to find my own voice, even after I started making my own music.

Now that I'm coming out with my own record people can see I'm a solo artist.

What I particularly liked was that, coming from California and not being involved in the New York scene, I developed my personal way, in my own way, at my own pace.

I think the solo playing, the decision to start playing solo, came out of having discovered what lay behind the doors that that technique opened for me.

So don't think in reality I am a singer, I think I am a human being that has sung always all her life, and has learned a little to sing, and has found herself in the middle of a career.

It wasn't until Duotones that I felt my true voice come out.

It was a really strange way that I came into music. Once I gave voice to it, the pit of emotions that I guess I knew was inside of me for a long time, the stream never really stopped.

By the time I did that third solo album, I'd finally learned how to do it, but I'd also learned that I liked being in a band.

I have to be my own artist. I need the world to know who I am, especially for music. When it comes to acting, that is a whole other story. I have no complaints; that's a team effort. It's not just me, it's everyone. But when it comes to music, it is solo; that's all me.

I didn't really even think of recording under my own name for a long time. I thought, 'I've got the rest of my life to do that.'

Being with Prince and the New Power Generation, I was very influenced by those sounds, and now I'm more than ready to show that side of me with confidence.

I feel like fifteen years with Fleetwood Mac was like working on my thesis, doing research for some kind of paper.

I'm kind of still learning my voice and learning my style.

I never stopped recording, but I went through a period where... The one thing that a lot of people don't know is that for as long as I've been as artist, I've been a writer and a producer.

Social media has changed my life, and it taught me that you can make your own path and really find who you are as an artist, in whatever capacity.

I'm a late bloomer in music.

I didn't have time to be anybody's muse; I was too busy rebelling against my parents and learning to be an artist.

When I was starting out with record companies, there was a tendency to simplify the image as a prodigy. I have more than one adjective, and I've always tried to be myself and listen to my instincts.