Sir Mix-a-Lot Quotes

People always want to talk about who I was, but I've always been singing, always been experimenting with pop music.

I've been making music for a long time, since I was very young, but at the same time, I'm still exploring what works for me. I feel like I'm just starting out.

It feels like I'm starting to come into my own in terms of where I want to go artistically, toward more complicated, interesting characters.

I never could have predicted that I would have done something that could be called portraiture.

I'm kind of still learning my voice and learning my style.

In life we try to grow and better ourselves. As an artist, I feel like I've grown tremendously.

Every artist makes himself born. It is very much harder than the other time, and longer.

After touring with David Bowie last year, I was inspired to look at what I wanted to do as an artist, and I realized I wanted to go back to the music I fell in love with when I was eight years old.

It's a great challenge and a wonderful journey how to figure out how to be an artist and to carve my way.

It wasn't until Duotones that I felt my true voice come out.

I know who I am as an artist and I know what my sound is, but I wanted to know what I could do in order to take it to that next level. So the experiences I had last year of moving to California and traveling to places like Rome and Nicaragua where I met a lot of people just had a really big impact in my life.

My songwriting has evolved, just as I've evolved as a person.

I really think I've found me finally in the music. You know, I had put an album out before, 'Embrace Me,' and it's been seven years since that. So I was discovering who I was. And I still am discovering, but I think now I know a little bit more of who I am. So that's what's pushing me.

Although I consider myself a direct descendant of the Renaissance heritage, I believe that an artist has to follow his own evolution and not solely be a ruminant of the past, as glorious as it may have been. An artist conducts a search that may lead him far out in exploring new areas of interest. I continually search to discover new and better means of expression.

I never thought of myself as being the singer that wanted to create an identity and then stick to that.

Joanne' is a progression for me. It was about going into the studio and forgetting that I was famous.

My view of myself as an artist expanded because of the time I spent at Cal Arts.

It took me three albums to get the confidence and to find out what I could do that made me different from other people. And the first record, really, was a process of trying.

I have all of these lives that I want the music to live, but at the end of the day, it's out there.

As an artist, you keep learning. You draw out different parts of you.

When I wrote my debut album I was around 17, I didn't really know what my sound was or who I was and what I wanted.

I had no precise plan when I started 'Electronica,' but I think it has been a very positive journey for me.

I think - for a period of time, I did think art was there to serve me, but it took me a minute to reset.

There are people who compose from very young. That is not my case. I went discovering myself.

It took me a long time to find my own voice, even after I started making my own music.