Keith Barry Quotes

When I want to put out an album, I want to write it. I want to be able to say that I wrote my album, and all this stuff is from me.

Not to take anything away from artists who don't write their own songs, but it's always been important to me to make sure it's my story.

Young people have realised that an artist is in charge of what they're doing - this crazy cynicism that artists were puppets has disappeared.

People are more naturally protective of what they create than of what they consume.

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

When I got into the music industry, I wasn't focused on being the most famous artist or even getting a major record deal. It was just to make music on my own terms or create my own image, do my own hair, do my own makeup.

I believe in creative control. No matter what anyone makes, they should have control over it.

I don't like to use my last name. I don't like it attached to things because people think you can just stamp your name on something, and it's not organic or that you're just doing it for money.

I've gotten to a point where I wouldn't direct someone else's material. It would only be something totally original.

Be careful that you do not write or paint anything that is not your own, that you don't know in your own soul.

But no one should have the right to manipulate my films in the first place.

I didn't think it was fair to my music to label me as the daughter of somebody - I didn't think it described me very well and I didn't think it had anything to do with my music.

I think, for me as an artist, there are no boundaries. As long as I'm creating in a way that isn't trying to re-traumatize any wounds that I do have.

I just believe that whatever I post should be my content.

I think authors can get into trouble viewing the subject matter as their turf.

I don't want to sing boring pop songs - I want to sing songs that are meaningful to me.

When I write songs for myself it's really personal and I just can't have someone else singing it.

I don't see myself as the boss. I sing and write the songs, and it would feel strange if somebody else wrote the lyrics I sang.

I think our culture has gotten so skewed. People assume that because you're an actor you want to write a book to exploit your celebrity, but my celebrity is only a byproduct of me making movies. I have no intention of being a celebrity.

I enjoy selling my music. I don't enjoy selling myself.

If you start to just aim for what the audience wants to hear, you're already hamstrung because you don't have any freedom.

I've never been one to sit back and go, 'I'd better do what the audience wants me to do, because I don't want to lose them.'

I need to find a way of retaining creative control.

I'm trying to protect what I advertise. That's my stance on any kind of self-expression.

It doesn't really feel like it's got anything to do with me. I mean, I know I wrote it, and all that and invented the characters and made it up, but it's Mike's film, so doing the press and stuff, it feels a little bit inauthentic. I was just one component of it.