Artist Transparency Quotes

I think it's important to update my fans on what I'm doing and where I'm going next and when my next single is going to drop and my album.

I think it's cool that my fans know more about me than a lot of other fans know about the people they look up to.

When you listen to an album, it shouldn't feel like, "That's the girl song," "That's the club song." I shouldn't know what you're thinking while you're making the song. I don't want to know what the artist is thinking.

My fans don't feel like I hold anything back from them. They know whatever I'm going through now, they'll hear about it on a record someday. They'll hear the real story. There's a little bit of lag time. It's not as instant as going on a gossip blog. But it's much more accurate.

I've always been real honest in my music and real honest when I play live.

My day one fans - my fans from my mix tape days - know my life now. They know where I've been. You don't want to have a disconnection with those fans. You have to give them all of you because they feel like they've known you.

To hear an artist be transparent is one of the greatest things they could ever do for their fans. I love that, when I see my fans on the road we have real conversations and it's not even that I do it as some big ploy to have album sales. I do it because it's important for them to understand who I am. So, whatever backlash comes along with me being transparent, there's nothing I can do about it.

As a fan of music, I don't like that artists release one body of music a year and then disappear because it's hard to relate to that. I wanted to be able to bring my fans along on my journey and have them really feel like they're living my life with me.

I want everyone who's listening to know who I am and not just see me as this singer. I want them to feel connected to my story.

We're all private people, but as a musician, I think that once you get to the point where there's more of your life behind you than in front of you, you owe it to your public to explain yourself.

You can get to know me through my music.

Don't hide things from the fans, because they will find them, and they will not be your fan anymore. I've seen that happen with many artists.

I don't think anyone's career is so big that they can't know where their major synchs are or where their publishing is going.

I know that my fans will probably learn a lot about me by listening to my music, if they really listen to the lyrics.