Charlotte Caffey Quotes

It probably would be impossible for me to make music and not make it sound like Burzum. This is the music I make and the only music I am able to make, so I have no other options musically.

Your limitations create your sound.

I was almost kind of trapped by my own success into only doing rock.

Well, I don't believe there are subjects that can't be painted, but there are a lot of things that I personally can't paint.

I'm just an artist. I can only do so much. I can only say so much.

It's a wonderful thing, as a writer, to be given parameters and walls and barriers.

You are still lucky - you have a certain type of people who keep buying your music - but then you can get typecast and have to keep making that same music, and you can change only slightly. It's risky to bounce around and change your type of music.

I like to make the music that I really love. You're supposed to make your favorite music that no one else played, and I'd like to just keep it at that and not really change it at all.

I've always tried to stay clear of being labeled, putting a label on what type of music that I make.

I don't want to be typecast as the 'ambient guy' or someone who only does electronic scores. I think most of the work that comes my way is because people feel they know me musically.

You know, if Kelly Clarkson wants to do country albums because that's what inspires her, then let her do it. Look at Kanye West or Ludacris... they aren't rappin' and cussin' like they were on their first few albums, so what does that make them? It's all in the eye of the beholder and the listener. We all use our outlet to grow ourself.

I'm playing with music and working on different types of music. But I've realised that I can't really stray from what is my marker.

I hate that if you do one style of music or become really well known for that one song, that everything that comes after has to fit that mold.

People expect me to be dark and gloomy, then write that I'm a jolly chap, and after all, that is what I am. I think it's a case of an absolute romantic naivety that there should be a parallel between the work and the artist.

I don't think people expect Bruce Springsteen to come out in a pink satin jacket, but Rod Stewart, they do. And I like doing it; I don't wear it just because I think I have to. I'm a very flamboyant person.

Because I killed a guy in real life, and because my character kills a guy onstage, they said I could never do anything this great again. I resented that.

I think being famous is more of a hindrance, a constraint, than just letting yourself be free.

It was the Control album that was really about what I wanted to do.

Once you achieve a certain level of success or fame, it becomes really difficult to go against type.

I think they want to keep it separate, but I've never been a crossover artist for some reason.

I didn't ever want to make a rap album. I considered it too limiting. Now that's exactly what I've gone and done.

I never thought of myself as being the singer that wanted to create an identity and then stick to that.

No actor has complete freedom.

As an actress, you know there are limitations on what you can do creatively.

When I first started to do music, I was kind of doing what I thought people would want me to do.