Nita Strauss Quotes

When I first went from a band situation to a solo situation, it was quite an adjustment to make. But after having done it for a number of years, it really feels good out there.

I wish I started out as a solo artist.

It's been awesome going indie. I don't need to be on a major label. I love not having to walk into a specific radio person's office to try to convince someone to play my songs. At the end of the day, it's more work, but I've discovered that I like to get my hands dirty.

When I got into the music industry, I wasn't focused on being the most famous artist or even getting a major record deal. It was just to make music on my own terms or create my own image, do my own hair, do my own makeup.

You can go out and find ways to make your own record and get it out there now. If you really want to, you can be heard. Keep things simple. Learn to go out and play solo. That's a really really good thing to learn, if you're a singer-songwriter. Don't be dependent on a band because you may not always be able to afford one.

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.

People assume that all artists make for terrible business people, but I'm in complete charge of my own career.

I never imagined I'd be a solo artist. And now I couldn't imagine being part of a group.

I really wasn't planning on being a solo artist.

I did a lot of writing for a lot of different kinds of bands that I was in and out of during those five years and that left me with a little body of songs that I liked better when I played alone, so I ended up going out solo and very soon made my first album.

It's a huge responsibility being a solo act.

Coming out with records when you're in a big, successful group that plays stadiums, that's scary to come out by yourself.

You don't need a record company to turn you into anything.

I was an artist, I was executive producer on my first album, so I've always had to manage both. I couldn't get a record deal. It wasn't by choice - I couldn't get a record deal, so I had to figure it out.

I knew exactly what to do in The Seekers but I didn't know what it would be like to be a solo artist.

I don't have a record deal, I'm not looking for one, I don't have a manager, I'm not promoting anything.

Every song that is a Hopsin song, I 100 percent made it. Nobody helped me. There was no producer to say, 'Hey, put the beat like this... ' It was all me. If the song was wack, then the song was wack. If it's dope, it is what it is.

I started out in rock, but I didn't want to stay there, and haven't.

People talk about the pop part - they don't talk about me being an independent artist. I made it look easy, that's the problem!

My band got signed in high school when I was 16, and we all dropped out of high school and went on tour. Then I quit the band because I was the manager, and I was doing everything, so I went solo.

I want to be role model for people to be like, 'I don't need a major label to be a successful artist and to have a successful song.'

I've always been independent with my music. I've always run my own music label.

I was fortunate enough to have gone through the major label process and kind of have the inside scoop on some things, some information I wouldn't have normally had. To go from a major to an independent, I don't think it's an easy transition.

The fact is, for the first 10 years I toured as a solo artist, I wasn't playing any of the songs I didn't write or sing.

I don't have to worry about what the average record company person thinks because I am the record company person.