Raven-Symone Quotes

My music is the most 'me' thing about me. Everything is in my music.

Music is about expressing things you can't in everyday life.

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

I really went back through a lot of the dark corridors of my life in this. I wanted people to know who I am based on my music, not on what they read in the tabloids.

My music is my way to rearrange the world according to my own hopes.

Art is about the 'I' in life not the 'we', about private life rather than public. A public life that doesn't acknowledge the private is a life not worth having.

Sometimes it's hard to open up about your personal life, your relationship because you always want the music to be in the forefront. You want the music to be the biggest carrier of everything that you represent.

What most people know about me, they know through my music. This time, I've tried to open that door as wide as possible. These songs are a giant step closer to who I really am and what my music is all about. Hence the title.

I made the record that my life had me make. Each one is like a diary.

Music expresses - you express yourself with music.

I've been writing a lot of songs about my personal life and identity. That can be a real healing process.

Music is an expression. It's almost like a diary in my life, you know. You express your perceptions and your view on life - your world view.

I'm not just making rhymes and making melodies. I'm expressing my true life force, energy.

I definitely think that using that artistic side of your brain, just having an outlet for emotion is very important, whether it be painting, dancing, acting, or singing.

I express myself better when I'm singing, so I always want to hold on to the music side.

Makeup and fashion are a very blatant way of expressing who you are because it's the first thing people see. With music, it's more personal, where people really are trying to get into your head and learn about who you are.

To express yourself needs a reason, but expressing yourself is the reason.

All my songs are where I am.

I always felt like I needed to act. Not that I wanted to act, but I needed to. And I still feel that same way. There's an expression that I get to have in acting that I can't consciously express in my life. It has always defined me and it always will.

I always write my music based on what is going on in my life at the time.

Music is just kind of an expression of who I am. It's what I do.

Guitar is the best form of self-expression I know. Everything else, and I'm just sort of tripping around, trying to figure my way through life.

My lyrics are my diary - you're hearing every detail of my life.

My songs are a direct route into my brain and my heart.

During 'Hawthorne', I was constantly trying not to be too outrageous and keep it serious. This has been so refreshing for me because it's such a good outlet for the inner me to just be. That's the whole point of 'Glee' anyways - to just be who you are and that's enough. I really feel that way on set.