We made records to document ourselves, not to sell a lot of records. I still feel that way. I put out a record because I think it's beautiful, not necessarily commercial.
My life revolves around music and always will. I need to be a part of music and not an observer.
I've been playing music since I was four, so it's part of my life. It's all I know. It's just a part of my everyday living.
I don't think any musician ever thinks about making a statement. I think everybody goes into music loving it.
I'm never gonna stop music, it's like air to me.
[My music] is opposite to fashion.
I'm driven by music. It's in my blood, and I've never been able to stay away from it for too long.
It all started with music for me. Everything still does.
I always judge my happiness by how much I listen to music.
I don't talk to media or anyone before games. I just put my headphones on, turn up some hip-hop, and get in the zone.
I lost connection with music for a while, but I've always loved it.
I want people to say about me, 'I know he's making music because he loves it.'
I like the music. I don't like the business. I get very tired of the travel and moving, constantly moving. But the hour-and-a-half that I'm making music, I'm one of the happiest people on earth.
From an early age, music was my only thing. You come from Detroit, you learn how to make the most of what you can do best.
Everyone knows almost everything about me. I make it very clear that I'm cool with people knowing all my personal life through my songs.
I have to be able to have music at all times - to shower to, to listen to, to warm up, to dance.
Well, because music is my life and music is not work for me.
People who do music do it because it is all they can do. And that's me, I suppose. I can do nothing else.
It's hard for me to see myself as meaningful, but people seem to like my music, so who knows. Maybe my music is empowering some more young women to pick up songwriting/playing.
Some people lose sense of what their music was when their life starts to get better.
I think you still need to use music as a way to say something that's important, and I'm always gonna do that. Always.
As a woman especially I've found a lot of freedom in music.
I never started learning instruments with the hope of having a career in it. It was more kind of I quite enjoy messing around and writing or playing with the family and stuff like that.
