Carice van Houten Quotes

I always saw myself as a singer-songwriter, a solo-artist, that's why working with other artists was never satisfying for me.

I thought for a long time that I was going to be a pop artist. It was around 18-19 that I started to make that a reality. I just knew that this was my destiny.

Being a rock star was out of the question. I can't sing.

I have done a bit of recording and the songs are available on iTunes, and I've got some nice comments. It's something I enjoy doing, but I'm not looking for a singing career any time soon. As long as one person gets enjoyment out of it, I'm happy to make it available.

I'm never doing a new album. I'll probably do nothing but singles. I'm as good as anybody out there lyrically and conceptually and can go toe to toe with the best of them throughout history. But I don't know how much longer I'll be doing it. It's not really fun anymore.

My aspirations aren't to sell millions of records, but to write really good songs.

I would like to continue making music and acting in projects that give me a lot of satisfaction.

I get to go make music, and I get paid to do it, and this is what people love me for. I couldn't ask for anything greater, so how could I not go in the studio and make a million songs?

After school I moved to London to get involved in music. I took the whole thing very seriously.

To finish a song is the best feeling in the world.

The big thing that everyone forgets, you're famous and on TV and everything, but I think there's something very rewarding to be able to write a song, record it, and have it turn out as you heard it in your head, or even better.

Once it's out there in the universe, it's serving its purpose, and I'm proud to have other folks hear the music that I was a part of making.

I'm trying to break away from doing covers or from being considered only as a YouTube star. I'm a singer, songwriter, sound engineer, and producer.

As long as I can write songs, make a record and do concerts, I'm really quite happy.

To record an album is cathartic, or at least it was with 'Belus,' but to make music is more fulfilling than anything else, I think.

It's a different kind of satisfaction, different kind of enjoyment than making your own songs, to remake someone else's song that you really like.

I've got a talent, and people enjoy my songs, people love my songs; why stop?

I just wanna make music that people love. If they love the next project that I put out, 'Thank you' because that means that I can take care of my family.

Some of the kids who discovered me from my 'F.E.A.R.' record or one of the U.N.K.L.E. tunes have said, 'I don't even like the Roses; I love your solo stuff.' I buzz off that.

At times I come across works of mine which are soundly done and really in my style, and at such moments I find great solace.

Last year I was 16, it was my first round of releasing music. Since then I've been working more on having an identity as an artist and really figuring out what it is that I want to talk about and how I want to sound.

When I wrote 'Dopamine,' I was so enamored by Los Angeles and finally making music I was really excited about.

I just want to make music that people hear, and I'm not ashamed of that.

I thought I was just going to be a songwriter for other people! And now I get to put out my own music, which is amazing.

I want to be a producer and not a songwriter.