Nuno Bettencourt Quotes

I have to be my own artist. I need the world to know who I am, especially for music. When it comes to acting, that is a whole other story. I have no complaints; that's a team effort. It's not just me, it's everyone. But when it comes to music, it is solo; that's all me.

I am at my core a singer/songwriter a la James Taylor or a la Billy Joel. It's not that I don't want to work with people, but I do just love doing my own thing.

I wanted people to understand that I have my own music, and I didn't want to sing other people's songs at shows.

I didn't get into music to become a blues musician, or a country musician. I'm a singer-songwriter. In my book that means I get to do whatever I want.

When you write a song you have an idea of how it should be sung but it doesn't work out that way if someone else records it.

I've accepted the fact that Limp Bizkit is my band, one that I'm a part of, a band that I've built from the beginning. It does me no good to be in somebody else's band playing their music, like Marilyn Manson or Korn. Being in Limp Bizkit allows me to be myself.

I have always thought it was important to maintain some connection for myself to what it takes to make a song work by myself, to put a song across to an audience by myself.

You make one solo album, and some people swear you're about to leave the band or there are creative differences.

There's so much you can do with laying words on a bed of music. You can completely change their meaning with the type of music or the way they're sung.

When I work alone, and I'm in my studio, and I'm playing a lot of the stuff myself, I think the style of it becomes something a little different.

When it comes to being in a band or going solo, one is collaborative, and one is not. But generally speaking, when going solo, I am the boss. People can contribute ideas, but I am the boss. When collaborating, you make compromises and look for a common ground.

I don't think you can reach the same highs working in a band as you can on your own.

I want to stay away from trends and do what we want to do musically.

I realized that you can achieve so much at the front of a stage, releasing the music yourself and being something more selfish than just the drummer.

I think the real exciting part about becoming a solo artist is that you get to really decide on what your new sound and what your new message will be.

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

Obviously I still gig on my own, but I've always heard my music with a band.

The only advice we gave Richie Faulkner was we wanted Richie to be his own guy. You have to let your musicians in your band be who they are.

We got full artistic integrity and autonomy over what we were doing, and that was the main important thing that kept our band alive.

With streaming services, the walls have come down a bit on genres. So I never really set out to make a country record or a pop record. I just wanted to make it mine.

The wild thing is that when I'm in the band, I can control my destiny with four other guys. As a composer sitting in the audience, you can throw good vibes at everybody, but you can't control anybody's destiny, so it's really unsettling.

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

Because I write the music, I write the lyrics, I write the vocal melody lines - I write everything. Just because I let somebody sing something doesn't mean they're more important than the bass player or the keyboard player or the drummer.

As a solo artist, my desire is to express myself through my music.

I had always been singing, all of my life, but it wasn't until I got out of high school and was on my own that I didn't have any accompaniment.