Gotye Quotes

My biggest challenge was to make sure that the songs I did were who I am.

I don't want people to just hand me music and be like, 'Here, you sound good on this. Sing it.' I want to be able to say, 'This is me.'

I think it's important to add a personal aspect to your music - that's what makes it authentic at the end of the day.

Playing the piano is incredibly personal... But when it's your own piece, it's doubly so.

People used to say nobody can sing my songs but me - they're too personal.

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

My greatest achievement is being able to write records that are real snapshots of what's going on in my life. I won't repeat myself for the sake of commerce, or to please other people.

I don't think songs have to be like these super-#1-smash-hit-sounding songs, because I think it's more important that it's like, 'Hey! This is coming out of me. This is something I connect with. This is something that I like to sing.'

My concepts are never bright ideas; they're never notions I think will sell or be trendy or attract new fans. I don't think that way. All I can do is sing from my life.

I've heard some people say that I'm selling out, but I'm not. If I hadn't done 'Black Radio', and just kept on doing just piano trio stuff, I wouldn't be honest with myself; I'd be doing it to please other people. That would be selling out.

I have always tried to work according to what affects me, to a script that I like because it touches me in some way, without deliberately pursuing a commercial career or a particular image.

Well, I make every song I sing personal. I've never chosen a song that wasn't.

Every script I've written and every series I've produced have expressed the things I most deeply believe.

I don't like to be entertaining. I don't like the feeling of being entertaining. If there was a musical or a comedy that was not just for entertainment but was rooted in something I could relate to on a real level, then I think I would do it.

I don't want to sing boring pop songs - I want to sing songs that are meaningful to me.

When I write songs for myself it's really personal and I just can't have someone else singing it.

I don't see myself as the boss. I sing and write the songs, and it would feel strange if somebody else wrote the lyrics I sang.

Whether it be in acting, music, or even in dancing, I only want to do things that I truly connect to, and with my music, it's everything that I am.

My music is going to be true. I'm not out to sell records. I'm experiencing something, and it's what I feel.

I always make music that is true to my spirit.

I just sing the stuff that makes me smile, makes me feel like I didn't sell myself out.

There is no seam between my songs and myself-they really are me. It's not like I'm performing; I'm just singing stuff that I really believe.

I have a lot of memories, but I don't go into capitalizing on that. Something's got to be my own. I'm not doing the record to sit here and broadcast my memories of my father.

You want your fans to like what you do, because it's coming from your heart and soul. You write it, you produce this thing. It's like your baby.

Songwriting is such an intricate part of me as an artist and as a person; I couldn't just let someone else do it.