Susanna Hoffs Quotes

I get to do my own thing with music. I get to write the songs and sing the songs. As an actor, you have to do what someone else tells you to do and say someone else's words. And you're limited by the way you look and music is just more rewarding creatively for me.

I've been messing around in the studio the last couple of years. But I don't want to worry about being taken seriously as a singer. It just really feels good to do it.

As long as it's making you happy and you're enjoying it, then you should never stop writing music. Whether it's going to take you somewhere, viewed by other people, or it's literally you in a bedroom at home, it should be something that you do for yourself.

All I ever wanted to do was play the drums; I felt good about myself when I played the drums. So I worked anywhere and everywhere I could lug my drums in.

I'm not meant to sit on the couch and not play music. But I never want to feel like I have to put out a record. I don't want to ever make those records.

I am really a very shy person. If I appear, it is because of the music, not because I want to be seen.

I've wanted to be Mick Jagger since I was 18. One of the things I love about music is that you don't have to be dependent on other people like you are in the film business. I hate being dependent on anyone. With my music, I can do whatever I want. I also think it's made me more relaxed as an actress.

I still enjoy doing music. I'm not going to stop doing it, and doing it the way that I feel it should be done.

I don't feel like I'm on a mission. I'm trying to play music that I like to play and like to listen to.

I would rather be on stage playing to 25 people with a band I love and the music I love than learning dance moves I don't want to do for 25,000 people.

I make music because I like making music.

My greatest accomplishment is the freedom for doing what I want to do with my music...I love my freedom so I'm happy I am a free artist.

I have never expected anything from my work but the satisfaction I could get from it by the very fact of painting and saying what I couldn't say otherwise.

I love people who go on stage and blossom like a weird flower.

With regards to the paint, I'm normally quite introverted and shy. I keep myself to myself, and I find that when I hide behind the paint, so to speak, I'm able to let myself go more and move more freely than I can without it.

All of this music, It's definitely been the most freeing thing that I've ever done.

I was always the shy one around, I wouldn't sing even in family gatherings.

Self-awareness is a character trait that's horrible to have if you're a performer. I think that a lot of these performers that we see get up on stage and play music, there's a sense of them truly not caring how they're coming across. They are just themselves. I look up to a lot of people who are like that.

I don't think enough people admit that there's just something fun about being in front of people. And that's not a self-centered, egotistical thing.

You can be whoever you want to be when you are writing songs.

I'm so grateful to be able to do music.

I feel, as an actor, one must not have inhibitions.

Playing piano and singing whatever comes naturally is the best thing for me - the only thing that feels genuine.

Everything that I hate about myself goes away when I was onstage.

I get to do all the styles of music that I love. There's no boundaries; there's nobody holding on to me saying I can't do that.