Noah Cyrus Quotes

I can only say that I myself wrote always as I wished, without a tremendous desire to find the latest thing possible.

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.

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.

Write what you think is good, is the whole of the law.

To the extent that independent means you're willing to attempt to put your own ideas, personality, and commitment to the material on screen, then of course I hope I'm independent until the day I die.

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

As a novelist, you have to be free. Books can't be an act of filial duty.

I think the moment you start trying to please a fan base is when you start going downhill. I'm going to always, always write about what I want, even if it doesn't necessarily cater to most of them.

I think this, I think basically I'm not interested in people following my work or making work like my work.

I'm not really calculated enough or trained enough as a musician or songwriter to create a style in order to please people. Ultimately, I just have to do what I like to do.

Either you live by the barometer of the music critics, or you live by your own. I choose the latter.

Stand up for yourself and fight for your right to be the artist that you want to be. There's plenty of pressure from outside; people tell you how to dress and how to sing or what to sing, but I always felt like if I'm going to fail or succeed, I want to do it on my own terms.

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

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.

We only do what we think is good and what we're happy with. I do that in stand-up, I even do it with my children's books. I don't do market research, I don't have focus groups, I don't care. I don't care if it fails, honestly. I'd rather have something that's completely mine fail than something succeed that I'm not proud of.

Basically I just had to say, 'Screw everyone around me - from now on I'm just gonna play what I think is important to me and our music.' So I gave the big finger to all the current trends in technical wizardry, and just went off and did what I felt was best for the songs.

I say, play your own way. Don't play what the public want - you play what you want and let the public pick up on what you doing - even if it does take them fifteen, twenty years.

Good or bad, the one thing I can say about my art is, if I can quote Sinatra, I did it my way.

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

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.

I'm not entangled in shaping my work according to other people's views of how I should have done it.

I didn't think it was fair to my music to label me as the daughter of somebody - I didn't think it described me very well and I didn't think it had anything to do with my music.

To be a true artist, I have to be true to who I am now and write that way.

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