Nina Nesbitt Quotes

I don't know if most people know it or not, but I produce, like, 95% of my own stuff.

I wanted to go back to writing for myself and my fans. I built my own recording studio, started my own label, and decided to use the Internet to sell my records.

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

I made this record without a record label.

When I started out, I wrote the songs, recorded the songs, mastered, mixed, did the artwork, made the packaging and did the distribution, all myself. Now I understand what everyone's jobs are, who is doing them right, and who isn't.

Producing all my own songs and refusing to go to the hot producer. That's the biggest risk I've taken so far.

I kind of just stumbled into producing. It was more that I was a writer, and the only way you were going to get your songs done was to do them yourself.

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

I'm really excited because Interscope is really focused on artists. They've been working side by side with me creatively and allowing me to make a lot of the creative decisions, which you don't always hear about. That's why I didn't want to sign originally with a major label.

I think what I've learned to focus on is my music, and that's why I made my record independently.

Nobody really produces my albums.

I made a lot of the first album on a laptop in my bedroom after college and after work.

I don't think people realize that I produce like 90 percent of all my music, except for the songs that I co-produce with people.

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

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!

Obviously spending my teenage years in music, and in popular music, I wanted to continue this career, but in a way that allows me to dictate it and create it myself as opposed to relying on third party or more corporate decision making.

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

I don't wait on the music industry to qualify me or give me my paycheck. I go about my business as an artist and I believe that my value is in my product and in my art form, and that's why I can't be stopped, because I began producing my record by myself, without a record company.

You don't need to be at a major, not at all. Technology being the way it is, and record sales being the way it is, there are not too many things that you need to depend on a label for that you can't go out and do yourself.

I'm not going to wait on anybody to put out music or a visual. Everything I will do is on my own. I'm not waiting on anyone.

I'm used to producing all of my projects, doing all the beats, and writing all the hooks.

My first album, I had to write everything. Nobody was going to send me stuff just because I had a little success.

I love singing opera, but the world surrounding it is not me. I want to be barefoot. I want to be in control of my own career. I want to put on a show. In the opera world, you wait for people to call you until you get to a certain level. In the folk world, it's a lot easier to have control from the beginning.

Grimes is the extreme version of doing everything yourself. I think this is impressive, because she is fiddling with things I couldn't fiddle with, all the technical stuff. I know what I want to do, but I wouldn't do it all my own, I would go crazy. This is insanely hard, to do an album by yourself. But I admire her for that.

I'm not the guy to get big record company budgets. My budget is Britney Spears' catering money.