Milla Jovovich Quotes

The world thinks that music is a commercial commodity. I'm glad that is not my code.

Sometimes I think I'm more comfortable onstage than I am in my own room. When I get onstage, it's kind of like your chance to let go and be something that you're not maybe. It's your time to dream.

Music, for the moment, has been this hidden thing for me. For the first time, I am master of something. I am not used by someone else, like in movies or pictures, where you always have the happiness or disappointment of knowing it's you seen through someone else's point of view. You go to see a film and half of the pretty scenes are not in it-the ones you liked. Living with this frustration all the time, suddenly music came as the best thing for me at home, where no one can tell you anything.

I am fond of music I think because it is so amoral. Everything else is moral and I am after something that isn't. I have always found moralizing intolerable.

I think in the world of rock music or whatever it's called - anything outside of Nashville - there's a lot more freedom within that industry to do whatever you want to do.

What I like about being a musician is that I find the thing soothing, but I also give the soothing to other people.

I find the fact that so few people buy albums to be strangely emancipating. There's absolutely no reason for 99% of musicians making albums to think about actually selling albums. So as a musician you can just make an album for the love of making albums.

I don't think of myself as making art. I do what I do because I want to, because painting is the best way I've found to get along with myself.

I love the feeling of letting fly, of pushing as far as I could go with my voice. The only way you can really graduate how you do it is by doing it regularly to people who don't have to be super impressed. You can do it in the studio all day long but you don't get the flashback that you get onstage.

Music comes from the soul. It's a way to express yourself, so we always, always need to save the music.

For me, I am still very happy to be able to do stage design as it's an opportunity to express the extreme.

Music is still above all else the thing that does it for me.

I can't tell you how freeing it is to have my own label. For the first time in my career, I have total control.

So it helped me to just let go of all my tensions and feelings about that world and say 'OK, this is for my fans in Japan. They'll be nice and get into it and have fun.' And it was the first record I made at my home studio.

The pop world is cool, but I never really thought of myself as part of it or wanting to be a part of it because I'm on a label that's not really like that. They're not trying to dress me up, they're not trying to do things like that. I feel like I'm sort of separate from that, actually.

I needed an outlet in high school and came across painting. I've actually been painting longer than I've been acting. A movie is a collaborative effort, and with painting you just have yourself.

I enjoy singing; being in touch with something that is inside of me.

When I write, I don't have any expectation of what kind of song it will become or who it might reach.

Because there is so little room for expression otherwise, a lot of people love cinema because they find it a way of expressing themselves.

My whole life I've played music for my own personal enjoyment and the idea of it becoming a machine or a business is just horrible.

Music is my release.

Music I do just for me.

Playing music for as long as I had been playing music and then getting a shot at making a record and at having an audience and stuff, it's just like an untamed force... a different kind of energy.

The artist writes, paints, sings or dances the burden of some idea or feeling off his mind.

The passion and spontaneity in music is all gone.