Cynthia Weil Quotes

I've got more creative control when I do music.

I'm not a slave to the recording industry. I have the freedom to make an album that I want to make and do it the way I want.

I just wanted to do my own albums where nobody could tell me what to do. Roc Nation was the perfect fit because I could do what I wanted to do.

The music I turn out these days is the kind of music I want to hear myself.

I publish my own music. I'm creating my own songbook. It works that way for me; I'm very independent.

I love music because you can create a world through your records. I have total control over what I do and what I wear. It's like my own world out of my imagination rather than someone giving me lines.

I'm very hands-on with my own music.

I enjoy making solo albums because over the years it's evolved into more of a genuine personal expression of story-telling and day dreams, and I work in a way that has more control.

Doing my own album provided me the opportunity to say whatever I wanted.

The only place where any artist feels liberated is doing independent music. I have had great experience making music for The Dewarists and Coke Studio. No actor, producer or label is telling me what to do with my music. I'm the boss. It is my life, my expression.

So, as I step out and take these first steps on this journey to do my own thing, I didn't want to have to get anybody's approval on anything. I didn't want to have to ask a record label 'Is this okay for the album cover? What time do you think I should go on tour this year?'

If tomorrow I want to release a rock album or I want to release a bachata album, nobody can tell me anything - why can't I?

We've been fully involved in making our music, and to be personally involved is what we really asked for.

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

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

It's a simple formula for me now, I don't play any song I don't want to play.

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.

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.

With acting I am being led by the script, other actors, the director, etc. But with songwriting I feel it is much more self reliant and allows me to be in the creative experience without being as dependent on others.

I don't want to be owned by a corporation and obliged to make a certain type of album. I want to be free.

I'm not interested so much in collaboration. You see that from the history of my albums.

Nobody owns me or my music.

Certainly in cartooning I'm given huge free rein at the moment.

I don't work to any commissions. I do what I want to do.

If I'm creating a free-form piece of art, I can make it look like anything I want, and nobody will say it's wrong.