Mya Quotes

Music comes out of me most naturally and would be the hardest to give up forever.

I loved the guitar, and I had all of this music in my head. My passion for the guitar and the ideas for what I could create musically were equal. So that's where I was.

I have been writing songs since I was 9 years old, so writing has and always will be my first love and passion.

Fiction is very important to me. It's what I do, it's what I do with my life.

When I do music, I do it for me and my fans.

I'm a compulsive musician, but it's also a bloody good way out of having to do anything else.

Music plays a very important role in my life. I'm a frustrated musician. I play the drums.

I've been painting off and on since I was in sixth grade. I don't paint when I'm acting - I'm not really able to split my focus that way. I do it intensely when I'm doing it, but I'm reluctant to take myself too seriously as a painter because that would mean there would be pressure to be better than I am.

I've always loved music and felt connected to it, but was too afraid to explore that avenue.

When I turned 14, I became very obsessed with writing songs, and it took over my existence.

You don't see me in the club. And the reason is because I would rather be in the studio mixing these musical potions. Now sometimes they blow up in my face, and there's a lot of smoke. But that's who I am. Music is what I do.

My art form is my child, and that's what I give my focus to.

I've been singing since I was five. It's my identity.

You have to connect with a song, and when you write it, that connection is already there. It's your baby; your passion is in that song.

When we started the Allman Brothers, it was all about the music.

My art completes my life.

Ever since I was a little girl music was my escape and it was something that I did and was a huge part of me; aside from what my grades were in school. It was something that was truly mine.

Writing and playing songs is something that I've loved doing since the day I started. It's never been a chore; it's always a hobby. To be able to do that from day to day makes me believe I'm a very lucky person.

Music's my life, and it always has been.

I don't like talking about my love for singing.

I have drawn all my life, I don't know how to live without drawing.

There's always been a separation between fashion and what I call my 'deeper' work. Fashion is where I make my living. I'm not knocking it. It's a pleasure to make a living that way. It's pleasure and then there's the deeper pleasure of doing my portraits. It's not important what I consider myself to be, but I consider myself to be a portrait photographer.

I paint for myself. I don't know how to do anything else, anyway. Also I have to earn my living, and occupy myself.

I'm a failed pop star. I always sneak a song into everything I do.