Bibi Bourelly Quotes

I work as an artist, and I think the audience of one, which is the self, and I have to satisfy myself as an artist. So I always say that I write for the same people that Picasso painted for. I think he painted for himself.

The rule I stand by as an artist is definitely be yourself, and don't make music just for other people: make it for you first.

Writing songs for other people was never the goal for me.

I don't do any art to please any people.

I can only do music if I can do it the way I can do it.

I write to please myself.

I feel like the point of being an artist is to have your own voice: to do it the way you would do it and not the way anyone else would do it. If you're a strong enough writer, then that voice is going to come out all the time, and I can't stop it from coming out, no matter what I do.

I try to please myself. I don't try to anticipate what people want to see.

I want to be remembered as somebody that tried to respect her integrity as an artist and as a person. And I don't want to be in any box. I don't want to be one thing.

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

The deeper I get into my life as a musician, I'm discovering that it becomes less and less about other people, and more about what I want to do. And that's a good place to be.

I just want to be myself and go for my own dreams and goals.

Everyone has his own sound. I'm not going to presume how to tell anybody how to write.

I've never been one to sit back and go, 'I'd better do what the audience wants me to do, because I don't want to lose them.'

They say I'm insane because I need to have so much creative control. They say I'm unmanageable, but I'm not. I just know what I like. I'm obsessed with it. If you can't control it, that's like having somebody else paint your pictures. How could you do that? I never could.

I can't be a spokesman for anything other than my own concerns. I have to be free to wrestle with my own preoccupations, and if I'm bringing any political awareness to that process, that mitigates my freedom.

I, in the end, make art for myself.

I essentially write for myself.

Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self.

I never set out to be rich and famous. I wanted to follow my own path.

It's cool that people like what I do, but I don't work for the audience.

I have to be able to be the artist that I am.

The most important thing for me as an artist is having an identity.

When I was a teenager I loved acting, but I really just loved it for myself. I didn't like the fact that anyone else saw the work I was doing. When I moved to New York, I started to realize that I wanted people to see the stuff that I was doing, and I wanted it to mean something to them.

I think it's very important to do things the way you want to do them and be true to yourself, your own goals, and your own ideals.