Lola Kirke Quotes

When I'm making my music, I'm writing it, I'm producing it, I'm playing all the instruments, I'm performing. It's my own world where I do what I feel, and nobody tells me anything.

Musically, between me and my fans and also me and my team, who between management and record label have always just let me be me, it's fun to pave a path. It's fun to feel like you're doing things your own way. So in that regard I haven't had to worry about any bar but my own.

I write my own songs. I made my own videos. I pick my producers. Nothing goes out without my permission. It's all authentic.

If someone, a director, tries to tell me the way to do something, I'm not good at adapting. I need time to go away and think about things.

'Who Do You Love' was kinda cool to make. I just made the beat; I was self-determined to make beats at the time.

I like Kehlani a lot because she's on her grind; she does everything herself. She's writing her own music and, you know, putting all the vocals together, and she's just dope. She just reminds me a lot of me.

Nothing competes with the buzz of making your own record.

In my first label Shrapnel Records I wasn't expected to do anything except the creative music that I wanted to do. I was my own boss, which is great.

When you make music on your own for so long, you get used to just doing whatever you want.

I've always been independent with my music. I've always run my own music label.

Of course it's super special to create your own records; it really is a part of my self.

You know, I like to release music the way I feel it, as opposed to having a date.

I'm really lucky that my record companies have been patient with me and leave me alone and give me the time to make it right in my mind.

Lord of the Rings made me realize that I'm not interested in doing anyone else's work.

I have to be involved. Whether it's me writing by myself or with other people, I definitely want to have my hand in the creative process. That's part of why I got into music in the first place.

I publish my own music. I'm creating my own songbook. It works that way for me; I'm very independent.

I don't control anything I create.

We've been working with the very best in the business. The studio really just let us alone to make the films.

Learn the duty as well as taste the pleasure of original work.

It is important to make your own stuff. Even if you are not an actor, it is important to not stop involving yourself as a creative person.

Well, since I produce and pay for my own albums, it is the ultimate freedom.

With acting I am being led by the script, other actors, the director, etc. But with songwriting I feel it is much more self reliant and allows me to be in the creative experience without being as dependent on others.

I've got more creative control when I do music.

You don't even need the director's judgement. It's too much.

I'm not interested so much in collaboration. You see that from the history of my albums.