Quotes About Individuality

I met will.i.am in the studio and played him a couple of songs and he liked them. We're similar but there's nobody in my lane doing what I'm doing.

I could never be a movie star and get up at 7:30 to be at someone else's studio.

There are a lot of characters that you can get into that don't exist in the studio world.

Actually, my true name is Rosa Dolores Alverio. And then I became Rosita Moreno when a stepfather stepped in. And when I got to MGM studios, which was my first film contract, they just thought that Rosita wasn't a good name, and they changed it to Rita. And yes, it was their idea.

Great songs come out of people's bedrooms; they come out of studios; there's no formula for it.

I hate the idea of people thinking that I'm just a little girl who goes into studios with pop producers, and they work their magic.

There's no point in me meeting with a bunch of producers or studios, because I'll write my own scripts in my own time.

I made my own contacts and I recorded in different studios, and it was something that I did by myself without the assistance and help with my family at first.

How do we escape who we are? I think, going to college, I felt freer. I loved the clean slate. I wasn't known as the sort of nerdy, studious girl. I met gay people for the first time in my life. I needed that expansion from a very conservative little town.

I have always found myself trying to study and analyze the world around me - not just taking everything for granted and following whatever is popular.

Often I've had problems automatically bending to a lover's will, becoming what I know they want me to be. Immediately, I learn all the music they love, listen to it, study it, instead of being like, 'This is what I love!'

I guess because you study the character and you do all those things. But when it comes down to it, it's still my performance, it's still my interpretation. I'm not going to, you know, be a clone - well, I was a clone of Richard Dean Anderson!

I feel lucky in that I don't really have to go to college to study something job-specific. I just want to go to learn about what is interesting to me and learn about the classes that you don't really get to take in high school because you have to take the basics.

Studying music, everyone sort of has their own style - it's not like everyone's going for the same part.

Studying music involves a lot of mathematics and a lot of exercises of memory. Or you've got to be able to be like somebody, to play like somebody, to play Mozart's music the way he played it and how he intended it. You've got to make it perfect, and that's not what I want to do. Although it is beautiful.

The freedom of punk really appealed to me because I came from the rules and regulations of studying classical piano.

Ideally, I'd really like to put my own stamp on things, but it takes years, you know, and you're constantly learning and studying and falling in and out with your instrument, learning different approaches and different attacks.

Just because you like my stuff doesn't mean I owe you anything.

As long as you're having fun and still doing stuff, it doesn't matter what other people think.

Transsexuals are amazing. You have all the great stuff in one place.

I'm a flamboyant guy, and I like nice stuff, but that doesn't mean I couldn't be more smart.

And I realized, when I'd come in to the meetings with these corrugated metal and chain link stuff, and people would just look at me like I'd just landed from Mars. But I couldn't do anything else. That was my response to the people and the time.

The only way of living in a free society is to feel that you have the right to say and do stuff.

I don't think I'm made of the right stuff to be a politician. I think I'm made to be a loose cannon.