Rosanna Arquette Quotes

I think the most important thing for an artist is to stay true to who you are. I want to stay as authentic as possible, as that's how we're going with our team.

If people like something you've done - or don't like it - this shouldn't determine what you write or how you write it. Those are two separate things entirely: your work and the world's response to it.

As an artist, you need to be true to yourself and free and not put yourself in a box that contradicts with what you feel is needed for a song.

I feel like the point of being an artist is to have your own voice: to do it the way you would do it and not the way anyone else would do it. If you're a strong enough writer, then that voice is going to come out all the time, and I can't stop it from coming out, no matter what I do.

I want to make music that I like; not something that I have to make because I think it's going to sell.

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.

To be a true artist, I have to be true to who I am now and write that way.

The most important thing you can do as a performer is to be yourself, or be an onstage version of yourself. If you're not being true to yourself, and somebody likes that other version of you, you're kind of stuck.

You have to be who you are when you do music.

I think every artist should follow their vision, their hearts is what they need to reveal, not something that society is looking out for.

The most important thing for me as an artist is having an identity.

I think the most important thing is to be yourself and be genuine and don't try to tell anybody else's story but your own. And if it comes from a genuine place, I think people can tell, and if it doesn't, I think people can tell, and I think that eventually it shows.

The most important thing I can say is to make music that moves you. Don't try and chase what's on the radio or what you think people want to hear.

I just always make honest music. I just always kinda do what I wanna do.

That's the most important part of all the music I produce: making sure the artist is bringing themselves out in the music.

I'm just trying to be myself - make music how I make music.

Writing is about bringing something from inside you that you're trying to say, and not just trying to say something to please someone else.

As long as I don't have to compromise my art, that's the most important thing. It doesn't matter if I'm famous or not, it's all about the music.

I can't create music if I'm wearing a mask and not being myself, and that was the problem with The Czars.

I think, at the end of the day, it comes down to authenticity and creating what you love.

Make sure that everything you produce and create is organic to you.

I've learnt that I've had the best results from just trying to be me, trying to make a movie or TV show I want to see or write a script I want to read, and that's really all I can offer - being authentic.

Love the art in yourself and not yourself in the art.

My greatest achievement is being able to write records that are real snapshots of what's going on in my life. I won't repeat myself for the sake of commerce, or to please other people.

I like to make the music that I really love. You're supposed to make your favorite music that no one else played, and I'd like to just keep it at that and not really change it at all.