Yolandi Visser Quotes

I'm certainly not who people think I am. I always do whatever I want to do, and my films are personal to me.

I've learnt that I've had the best results from just trying to be me, trying to make a movie or TV show I want to see or write a script I want to read, and that's really all I can offer - being authentic.

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 don't rap like nobody, I don't try to sound like nobody.

Sometimes, there's a preconceived notion of how a scene or how a work should be delivered. And I see young performers sometimes try and deliver that, and it's not really true to their voice or who they are.

I've never really tried to copy anyone; I like to have my own style.

I like to make the music that I really love. You're supposed to make your favorite music that no one else played, and I'd like to just keep it at that and not really change it at all.

I have my own voice and can focus only on that. I know what I like; I find my inspirations in so many other places than just online and bring that into my work.

I don't try to guess what a million people will like. It's hard enough to know what I like.

I don't want ever to be guilty of what my critics claim: doing formula without original elements.

If I like it, it's gonna be on my album. You can't please everyone.

The records are black boxes for me. Like, if you want to know who I am, my views, my perspective, things I love, things I hate, my convictions, my anthems. I've never let people's opinions affect the way I write.

Rock is all about writing your own script; it's all about pioneering.

The minute you succumb to outside pressure, you cease to be creative.

I learned early in my writing career that if I try to tailor a song for someone else, I'm usually off base. They're usually looking for something from you with your character.

If you're trying to please everyone, then you're not going to make anything that is honestly yours, I don't think, in the long run.

Just trying to be different - when I hear something - I don't like to go trampling on other people's sounds.

I have never wished to cater to the crowd; for what I know they do not approve, and what they approve I do not know.

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

You have to be who you are when you do music.

I have many musical inspirations, but I would really love to just be me. My very own artist.

All the power to them but I'm not interested in making yet another show that looks like some other show.

I think the most important thing for an artist is to stay true to who you are. I want to stay as authentic as possible, as that's how we're going with our team.

I'd just like to inspire people to be themselves and do what they want and not conform to the rigid guidelines of the music or entertainment business.

When I was coming up, we weren't trying to get a hit or get paid, we were just trying to do our thing. The only thing we were really trying to do was to be recognized for our originality.