“I want people to remember me as a full on entertainer and a good person.” - Aaliyah
“I’m the interpreter. I’m the one who takes your words and brings them to life. I was trained to sing and dance and laugh, and that’s what I want to do.” - Aaliyah
“I stay true to myself and my style, and I am always pushing myself to be aware of that and be original.” - Aaliyah
“The way I write my songs is that I have to believe what I’m writing about, and that’s why they always end up being so personal—because the kind of artists I like, they convince me, they totally win me over straight away in that thing.” - Adele
“I literally left school and went straight into music via art college for a year, and I’ve been so involved in my job of writing songs that the more actively involved part became channelled into standing on the stage and saying things that way.” - PJ Harvey
“For me, writer’s block isn’t so much, “Oh, nothing’s coming out.” It’s more about how my subjective view of everything that is coming out is really negative. Putting your ego aside and confronting your weaknesses and just letting things happen is hard.” - St. Vincent
“Some people just want to do music and be famous, so they have to do interviews and stuff. I want to do music, but I don’t want to be famous for it. I want to do music as well as doing movies as well as probably directing movies, writing, doing poetry, creating recipes for vegan people, and opening a restaurant.” - SoKo
“I feel blessed. So grateful and thankful to myself that I didn’t fall for any tricks and I didn’t fuck up and I didn’t become a junkie and I didn’t jump out a window and I didn’t fall prey to those traps because I had self-preservation.” - Chan Marshall
“I’ve always liked extreme performers; I don’t think I am one, but my mentality is in line with that. There’s a side to being in a band that some people embrace and some don’t: the fact that you’re performing and you care about how it comes across.” - Dee Dee
“Like any band, we definitely have tension, but we’re very much a democracy. And, ultimately, when we really like something, everybody likes it. If there are disagreements or tensions, it’s usually just because we haven’t found “it” yet because when we do find it, we all really love it.” - Emily Kokal
“I don’t care for the music industry very much. Unfortunately, I find a lot of people who work the business side of music really just want to hang out with artists. Yet, I don’t find that they have much loyalty toward artists.” - Donita Sparks
“Music was always a huge part of my life. I always wanted to play an instrument, but never had the time. So when I stopped dancing around 21, the next creative activity I stumbled upon was drums. It felt very natural – and it seemed this was obviously what I was supposed to do next.” - Nicole Turley
“To me, music is about sharing, whether it is sharing with the listeners, or the audience, or sharing with another musician. Music doesn’t exist without ears, without other people.” - Melissa Auf Der Maur
“I think there is a lot of great music! You just have to look for it. I do miss a time when there was less a concern to be so famous though. I grew up through the end of punk rock and so I come from a place where it was uncool to be famous.” - Toni Oswald
“When we first started, we never intended to be in a band. We were at university and we did it just for fun, but people were taking us seriously.” - Rosa Rex
