Daniela Vega Quotes

I think I have allowed my voice to experiment with the different genres. And I think that I have just really enjoyed the journey of getting to know my voice and seeing what it's capable of, what it's not capable of.

My first album was me finding myself and my voice, finding how I sing. I was rolling with the punches because everything was new to me.

It's a great challenge and a wonderful journey how to figure out how to be an artist and to carve my way.

When I first started making music, I didn't really know what I was doing. I just wanted to write songs. I didn't have a concept. I didn't think it through. I was just flailing around doing what comes naturally. It took me a really long time to step back and deal with what I was doing with any kind of perspective or self-awareness.

As a singer I tried on all these hats, these voices, these clothes, and eventually out came me.

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

I had no idea I was gonna be a songwriter, because I was too young to know my own evolution. I started playing the violin as a way to express myself because I didn't have a lot of vocabulary when I was 14.

When I launched my channel, I felt I was ready to do this. It's not that I had learnt everything - because as an artiste you never stop learning, but I was ready to put out my voice in the world.

Every now and then, as a composer and producer, it's important to write music for yourself.

As someone whose music is connected to his personal growth, I feel an obligation to follow this muse wherever it leads.

I feel like, for me as an artist, it takes me a while of living with the tracks and living with the body of work to realize what it's all about.

I just think that when you've been singing for 30 years, which I have been, you just want to find different things you can do with your voice. It's a constant journey. It's not like any one album that you make is who you are. It just reflects that particular day.

Through my films I'm eventually trying to one day tell the truth. I don't know if I'm ever going to get there, but I'm slowly letting pieces of myself out there and then maybe by the time I'm 85, I'll look back and say, 'All right, that about sums it up.'

In life we try to grow and better ourselves. As an artist, I feel like I've grown tremendously.

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.

My style has evolved in a nice way, but everyone has bad moments.

For me, making music is a continuous learning experience, and I think that it feeds itself.

I think it's natural for an artist to explore as they evolve.

To me, 'Underground Luxury' is kinda like a contrasting title, and the reason for that is because on this album I plan on introducing to people and reintroducing to people the side of me that they didn't see on the first album.

In America, the stories we tell ourselves and we tell each other in fiction have to do with individualism. Every person here is the center of his or her own story. And our job as people and as characters is to find our own motivations and desires, to overcome conflicts and obstacles toward defining ourselves so that we grow and change.

I was a different person before I started to write. When I realized I could be a songwriter and that people would listen - that was when I started feeling good in my life.

Some people say, 'Write what you know.' My thing is, 'Write what scares you.'

It took me a long time to find my voice as a singer, and I'm happy that I did.

I really believe in the old expression that what doesn't kill you makes you stronger. It's through adversity that you find the strength you never knew you had.

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