Daya Quotes

I want to put a face to my music, I don't want to be a faceless producer or faceless artist.

I understand that, because there are so many musicians, you have to make artists into brands, but I sometimes feel like I have to be some kind of non-human icon in order for people to listen to my music.

Your main radio stations, the stations that get the most listeners, don't play anything that has any kind of integrity to it.

With modeling, you are the client and you give them what they want... with music, it is all about you, people are buying into you as a person.

If you ever want to know why I'm not on a record label, look at 'The X Factor!' Honestly, of all the people that strive to break barriers in music and do good things and write great lyrics, not one of them would ever pass the first round on any of these competitions.

I would never do anything that makes the perception of country music worse.

That's my goal: to get the world to know who Romeo Santos is. His music. My music. Even if they don't like it, I want them to know who I am.

When I put my first song out, I didn't put out any pictures. I just wanted people to hear my music.

Traditionally with debut albums, labels insist on a face, so people know who you are.

I wanted to put a song out there to let people know who I was and, at the same time, help me set apart from a lot of different people in country radio.

To get the best idea of who I am, I would probably say listen to my first single, 'The Way I Talk.'

When I first started my own brand, when I needed an icon, I had no other icon but myself. I had to create that.

Branding is quite an important thing. As an artist, you want to be able to explore facets of yourself.

I feel like the 'Supernova' record, those songs are very me. It's a more honest representation of me than any record I have made prior to that.

I want to just change how people look at music and artists.

I'm intrigued by people who are super adept at manipulating their own image. We all do it to a certain extent.

When you're setting up your dating profile, choose the photos according to who you are today. A variety of recent shots that are a true representation of your character.

For the second series of 'Luxury Comedy', I tried to drop the 'Noel Fielding' from it. I thought that would make it less like a solo project and more like a show. Also, it would probably have been easier to take the reaction to the first series if it had been a project rather than my name and face!

There's a lot of artists out there who are pretty big but don't write their songs, they just have a lifestyle brand. These are all things that I think are a great enemy to music.

I think couldn't not make a song called 'Wild Boy' and not be a wild boy.

Honestly, I always think it's cool when artists name their first album after themselves. It's confident it just means like this is me, this is my project, here you go.

I wanted to play my original music, but it was really hard because a lot of the people who would come out to the shows found out about me through 'The Voice' and wanted to hear covers.

Yeah, every artist I think should look at themselves as a brand because the more appealing your brand is, the more money you can make off your brand.

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.

Years ago, when I was making music, I was sending it off to radio stations and getting told it was 'too urban.' But what else am I supposed to make?