Sai Pallavi Quotes

I am an artist, and I have the ability and the free will to choose the way the world will envision me.

I would never tell someone else how to use their platform, because I think I'm much more comfortable allowing the work that I do to speak for itself.

Can't nobody make you make any music that you don't wanna make. Remember that.

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.

I did not go into the film business to be symbolized as someone else's vision of me.

If I'm going to go out to be a solo artist, it's because I want to do something different without having to wait on someone else's schedule or hobbies or be limited by other people's prejudices. I'd be kind of stupid not to exercise that.

My job is to just express something that I want to express. And if I'm ahead or behind the curve, that's for others to decide.

I feel, having the choices I had, I felt I had more control over my own medium than I did over photography.

I used to get in trouble with my old agent, because I've never been driven by fear or need or greed. I want my work to represent me as a person, so I can be quite fussy.

I am an independent film-maker first and foremost. I have always cut my own cloth.

I have to believe that I know what's best for me. For instance, I choose all my songs. I never record anything I don't want to record. No one tells me what concerts to do.

I'm actually living my life with the material I choose to work with.

I could make a whole album with no one else involved at all. It would be a total, unadulterated expression of myself. Because whenever you have others playing on a project, their influence becomes a part of it.

I've always felt like I've had the ability to choose which roles I was going to play. I don't think that the industry agreed with me, but I've always had a bit of a headstrong attitude of only doing the things that I really believe in and want to explore.

Stand up for yourself and fight for your right to be the artist that you want to be. There's plenty of pressure from outside; people tell you how to dress and how to sing or what to sing, but I always felt like if I'm going to fail or succeed, I want to do it on my own terms.

I've been wanting to produce for some time because I want to have more creative control over the things that I do and not be victim to the whims of other people's desires.

Trends keep changing, but I have and will always do what I like to do!

I have people telling me what I can and can't do, what music I can and can't make.

I didn't come to Hollywood to be subservient to anyone else's vision.

My music has always been my solo project.

I love to work. It's the idea of having someone else tell you how to make your film or how to sell it - that's the part I can't really deal with. I would rather do 1,000 things that are work than deal with one thing that's a political problem.

If some actress thinks she is sexy and she can dance, it's her choice. I do what I want to do, and I set my own benchmark. I will never compare myself with anyone.

There hasn't been one moment in my career where I felt I didn't have any control over the creative aspects of my records.

Very few artists are as independent as I am mentally, physically, spiritually and technically. I sit in my home studio and record things by myself. I don't need to get anybody's approval or validation.

The reason I always insisted on signing my work was not to be subordinate to anyone.