Kim Petras Quotes

The fact that I have been successful merely means that I can write and illustrate in my own way.

I've never really tried to copy anyone; I like to have my own style.

Being a songwriter does not rely on an audience or other band members or a camera. I can just sit in a room and write songs.

I love Lady Gaga. She's not afraid to take risks and be herself.

In songwriting, I needed language. And I always believed in singing about what I do.

Art requires neither complaisance nor politeness; nothing but faith, faith and freedom.

I'm definitely using different parts of myself, but I think when it comes down to words and melodies, I can't really force anything too much.

Every song that I play I wrote by myself.

I wrote my own verses. Anything I did, I wrote myself.

Whether I'm writing for myself or someone else, I'll always write a song that I would feel comfortable singing.

We just try to write about things that are close to our hearts. We don't sit around trying to write another 'Free Bird' or 'Sweet Home Alabama.'

I don't get inspired by too many people because I like uniqueness. I'm a unique dude.

One of the things that helped me to be confident is to be the kind of musician that I respect. I always liked musicians who wrote their own songs, and so I started writing my own songs.

I write all my own songs. Everything I did on 'The X Factor' was basically original, except for some of the live shows. Everything I did was original, and I wrote it from the heart.

I feel like a lyricist is somebody that writes their own lyrics. Now songwriters and lyricists are two totally different things. You can't really be a lyricist if you didn't write your lyrics. There's no passion, there's nothing in it coming from you. It's somebody else's feelings and you just taking it and running with it.

All talent needs is credibility and the freedom to create. That is all. That's what will make the talent happy, that's what makes me happy to this day.

There’s a great expression in Twelve Step programs: Act as if. Act as if you’re a writer. Sit down and begin. Act as if you might just create something beautiful, and by beautiful I mean something authentic and universal. Don’t wait for anybody to tell you it’s okay. Take that shimmer and show us our humanity. That’s your job.

Never ask for approval in your work. Life is your own, inspiration is your own, you create alone, and the results are your own - and that's good enough.

I try never to focus on the radio, just find great songs, find emotion and just write the best songs you can. I think when you get fixated on trying to do something too accurate, it becomes more washed out and less what you intended it to be. So I think each time the challenge for me is to try and reinvent a little bit.

I think that my father would find it so confusing that people want to imitate him. Not because he didn't have confidence in who he was, but because he never imitated anybody. He was his own person.

When you find a song that you love, you just have to do it - why would I try to match it? When I wrote more of the songs in the '90s - 'Nick of Time' and other songs I was surprised I came up with - it was because nobody else was saying what I wanted to say.

Don't try to write to the trend of the moment.

Some of the projects we've proposed over the years have been refused. But we never do other people's ideas; our ideas come out of our two hearts and our two heads.

To the extent that independent means you're willing to attempt to put your own ideas, personality, and commitment to the material on screen, then of course I hope I'm independent until the day I die.

I don't think anyone would bat an eye if I wrote a song.