Mandy Harvey Quotes

I feel like the point of being an artist is to have your own voice: to do it the way you would do it and not the way anyone else would do it. If you're a strong enough writer, then that voice is going to come out all the time, and I can't stop it from coming out, no matter what I do.

To me, what makes an artist is a unique personality that they're not afraid to let show.

I'm just trying to be myself - make music how I make music.

I want to be my own artist and reflect my creativity.. I don't want to be turned into a pop princess; that's not who I am.

When directors tell me they want a song like one, I tell them no song should be like another. I don't listen to directors.

Certain people like the way I make films, and others do not. I've come to terms with the fact that there's no other way I can make films. If I tried to do it in a different way, it would never work.

It does not matter how badly you paint so long as you don't paint badly like other people.

Whatever is about you that is translated into your art, that's gonna keep you completly original and fresh and I just think that, that's just the best advice I can give, to an artist creatively.

To be a true artist, I have to be true to who I am now and write that way.

I learned early in my writing career that if I try to tailor a song for someone else, I'm usually off base. They're usually looking for something from you with your character.

I have many musical inspirations, but I would really love to just be me. My very own artist.

All artists are equal when they are themselves.

You should be able to do you. That's what differentiates an artist from a singer.

I never claimed to be a generic artist, period. I never wanted to be a generic artist.

My music is not like everybody gonna love it, it's really what I make of it.

The way I work is not the way that you work, and the whole point of any creative act is that. What I have to offer is me, what you have to offer is you, and if you offer yourself with authenticity and generosity I will be moved.

It's really tough to make a name for yourself without compromising and without fitting yourself into a real specific mold. When I made the choice that I would be involved in every aspect of music and not necessarily make music for radio or MTV, I was saying, 'OK, this is me. You decide who it is.'

I say, play your own way. Don't play what the public want - you play what you want and let the public pick up on what you doing - even if it does take them fifteen, twenty years.

Good or bad, the one thing I can say about my art is, if I can quote Sinatra, I did it my way.

I've learnt that I've had the best results from just trying to be me, trying to make a movie or TV show I want to see or write a script I want to read, and that's really all I can offer - being authentic.

I feel like it's important, especially at young age, to find exactly what it is that makes your style so important as opposed to just trying to fit into the iconic styles of performers out there.

I think, as an artist, part of your job is being aware of what's going on around you and not selling out and not following the trend, which I'm totally against.

I don't rap like nobody, I don't try to sound like nobody.

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.'

As long as you're true to you, you believe it and you make others believe it, then what you're doing is just art. If you give everybody a blank canvas and some paint, not everybody's picture is going to be exactly the same, but it's still art. I just do what I do.