Nina Hagen Quotes

I get the lyrics of a tune and interpret them my way.

I wrote songs all my life, where anyone wanted to hear them or not.

Main thing, really, is I write songs the way I wanna hear them and the way I think the people that come to our shows wanna hear them.

I'm just going to sing my music; I'm going to write my songs, and I think that people get to know me in that sense.

Anyone can pick up an instrument if they want to express themselves or write a song and put it on YouTube. It's always technology that comes and turns around how we think creatively and what we do creatively.

To be honest, neither 'Satta' nor 'Stumped' needed songs and music. But when we recorded a good soundtrack album, everyone suggested we create credible situations for songs.

When I'm playing, I play what I want, but I make sure that the crowd is going to love it at the same time. It's like a balancing act, a mix of two, a perfect circle... if you do it right.

There are no rules when it comes to songwriting, so I'd turn Carter family songs from the 1930s into pop songs.

'Faucet Failure' was my favorite because I just had fun with it, and it was just 10 minutes, and I didn't overthink anything, and I wanted to just have fun with the song.

'Gossip Girl' was an adaptation that, although very different from a Marvel property, had a vocal fan base. On that show, we started off very nervous about making any changes from the book. As we got our sea legs underneath us, we became more bold.

If you start adapting to audiences, you're really second-guessing the situation, and it becomes a bit more like cabaret.

I think I might have played a song on piano or guitar in a school talent show. I went to an all girls school, so there were always little things going on, but it wasn't really until I was 17 that I did a proper performance. My first big one was Glastonbury, before I was signed.

I love songs, so when you're song-based, it doesn't matter which way the production leans.

The goal, when you're playing a character that's super beloved from a movie, is to honor what the actor before you has done and then really just expand, which is what you get to do in a musical because you have songs, choreography, and everything is happening in real time.

My first couple shows, I figured I should be playing the guitar and singing. That felt weird, but I got good at it pretty quick, and I learned my songs and how to play them.

What I always expect to deliver to my audience is a very entertaining evening of singing and playing.

I like to make glamorously informed songs for glamorously intelligent people.

I love making music, and performing, that will always be there.

There's nothing sacred about the book you've written. The Bible says there's safety in a multitude of counselors. The movie is the movie, and the book is the book. They're different critters, and each must stand on their own merits.

That was something we were trying to figure out: Are we allowed to do a jazz song? Are we allowed to do cabaret? Just from hearing the Beatles, it was like, 'Well, they did it. It's okay to write something other than a standard rock song.'

If you're in a rock band, you're never too tame.

Drumming is a real part of my live show, and I like to do it because so many people aren't expecting me to go and do it.

On stage, it's very naked. There's a reason you shake your knees. You're very vulnerable, cos it's just you, your body is the instrument. But I always had confidence in my voice, if I had the right song, the right words to sing.

I like to compose, but only for myself. I write my own lyrics and compose the music around them.

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.