Nita Strauss Quotes

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

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.

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.

I need to find a way of retaining creative control.

I do love being solo because I can have more of my own creative input to every aspect of my career.

A lot of things encouraged me to start my label. I think it's very important for an artist to know how many records they've sold and where they've sold. I know that I have never been treated the way I'm supposed to be treated - like an artist. That's why I do things for myself. I feel like I'm a free man.

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.

I've had a lot of voices tell me what I should be making. Personally, I would much rather live and die by my own hand. If my stuff sucks, then at least I made it suck. I didn't allow some person, some old dude in a suit, to make it suck for me.

If you look at somebody like Sam Bee, she got to create her own thing without any expectations that there was a show there. That was probably liberating for them.

I've never conformed to what my record label has said and, yes, that has meant that it's been a long journey for me.

I can make my own decisions, I can do the music I like. If I fail, it's me failing - you know.

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

I've written all of my songs, I directed all my videos. Every part of what I've done for music, from the visuals to the business, I did it. And I'm really proud of that.

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

I think I can define my entire life, virtuosity and business philosophy down to the core fundamental that I absolutely hate being told what to do. But like any artist or any human being out there, I desperately want to be loved, and I spend my entire life trying to balance those two facts.

I'm certainly not who people think I am. I always do whatever I want to do, and my films are personal to me.

My best business decision was to be independent as a musician and artist. My worst was compromising on certain aspects of a deal for the sake of other members of my group when I shouldn't have, because I was right in the end.

I always thought that if record companies didn't understand me, fine - I'd go and do it by myself.

I've done a lot of collaboration over the years, but right now I'm enjoying writing by myself and just being me again for a while.

My parents were quite liberal with us, always encouraging us to be our own person and be creative.

Everything in my career is my decision - every picture, every outfit. You get one chance at this, and I never saw myself as being a puppet.

You gotta make the movie you want to make.

I'm a businessman as well as an entertainer. The reason why is because I want to own whatever I'm doing. I don't want to work for other people forever.

I never think about what others are doing. I do a film for myself, not others.