Alice Merton Quotes

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

I can only do music if I can do it the way I can do it.

I'm certainly not who people think I am. I always do whatever I want to do, and my films are personal to me.

My interest is to work in as uncompromised a way as possible.

The moment you cheat for the sake of beauty, you know you're an artist.

You can't write something to please someone.

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

I don't want to sell my soul to Hollywood - to just make run-of-the-mill stuff.

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.

I'm not entangled in shaping my work according to other people's views of how I should have done it.

People came at me with all sorts of offers, wanting to make me into a hard-core Cher. I had no desire for any amount of money to be reformed for someone's vision, because in the end, that's what you got: your clay in someone else's hands.

The minute you succumb to outside pressure, you cease to be creative.

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

When I make movies, I don't ever go out there to please anyone other than myself. I never try to make a film for the masses. I just try to tell my story.

The way I choose projects is based on what I think is most real and most interesting, not on what's paying the most money or what's most popular.

I'd rather sell 10,000 records that represent me than 2 million that don't represent me at all.

I think the moment you start trying to please a fan base is when you start going downhill. I'm going to always, always write about what I want, even if it doesn't necessarily cater to most of them.

I'm always looking for a reason to say no when I'm approached about a big studio tentpole because your fear is will you be consumed into the anonymous machine, and it will suck out any specificity and point of view that you might hope to express.

If I knew anything about what people wanted and was popular, I'd still be writing for 'Saturday Night Live'. I can only write what I want, and hopefully people will like it.

I never wanted to be a feature - that was never the goal with my music. I didn't want to just live through other people's work.

I am completely open to doing a romantic comedy, but I will never do something just for the sake of doing a specific genre or because it's the time or place to do a different type of movie. I think that would be a huge mistake.

I never want to record something that I'm not proud of just because I think it might be a big hit. There's no positive about that because if you record a song you hate and it's a big hit, then you're singing a song every night that you hate. And if you record a song that you hate and it isn't a hit, then you sold out for no reason.

You hear it said time and time again by successful directors: You have to make a movie for yourself. Don't make it for anyone else.

I make pop music, but I do it on my own terms. I'll never play the game, so to speak, just for success. I'll always follow my heart and make the music I want to make.