Julia Holter Quotes

I write my own songs. I made my own videos. I pick my producers. Nothing goes out without my permission. It's all authentic.

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

The way I look at a solo project is, I create what I want with whoever I want.

I really enjoy the creative freedom that I get when I produce my own projects.

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

In my first label Shrapnel Records I wasn't expected to do anything except the creative music that I wanted to do. I was my own boss, which is great.

In the first two years of my career, there were a lot of restraints on what I could do. I couldn't wear certain colors of lipstick, like bright pink, dark pink or red; [my lips] had to be natural. Eventually, I stopped communicating with certain people at the label, and did exactly what I wanted to do. And that was to cut my hair, dye it black, change my clothes, change my sound. Really to just express myself.

The thing about doing concerts is that it's doing a live show. It's on my schedule. It's songs I want to sing. It's saying what I want to say. It's working with the people I want to work with. I don't have to worry about pleasing other people - I can do what I want, and people come along and go for the ride.

I am not really interested in only showcasing my life or work but plan to produce, write and create work that is solely my vision.

I have complete creative freedom. If I want to put a song on the album, there's no one stopping me.

I want to be my own artist and reflect my creativity.. I don't want to be turned into a pop princess; that's not who I am.

If you look at somebody like Bach, he didn't need collaborators to write for keyboards, cello, violin or anything else. I feel the same way about my music. The times that I have worked with other people, I've been very unhappy with the results.

My greatest accomplishment is the freedom for doing what I want to do with my music...I love my freedom so I'm happy I am a free artist.

When I'm making my music, I'm writing it, I'm producing it, I'm playing all the instruments, I'm performing. It's my own world where I do what I feel, and nobody tells me anything.

Photographers should follow their own judgment, and not the fads and dictates of others.

I want to pave my own path artistically.

Weezer isn't stuck in roles, so we just do what we want to do, what makes us excited.

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.

I guess I created LeRoy Neiman. Nobody else told me how to do it. Well, I'm a believer in the theory that the artist is as important as his work.

If I'm going to go out to be a solo artist, it's because I want to do something different without having to wait on someone else's schedule or hobbies or be limited by other people's prejudices. I'd be kind of stupid not to exercise that.

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.

I know that if a film is ready to emerge out of what I write, I'll be able to go off and make it without asking anyone's permission.

I make the music my ears want to hear, I wear the clothes my body wants to wear and the ones boys call me back for, and I generally make the songs that my feet dance to.

My work is not generally in the commercial sector. However, I'm not worried by the commercial sector. I refuse to work in any other way except the way that I work.

I like to choose my own way forward. I really do want to create something that I personally like a lot.