Quotes About Challenges

I've been through a lot in the music industry, in life. I've learned that I have to be tough in this world.

I'll be honest, watching the music industry collapse has been demoralizing and disheartening at times.

The music industry is very small.

The music industry is a very rough industry. Many years ago, I think it was even rougher in the sense that a lot of it was predicated on image.

I thought that the music industry was going to be pretty easy - getting features and stuff - and everyone was going to be nice. But I realized that it's really, really hard to get features.

My biggest failure was trying to start and run a music label. The music industry was dying, and I wasn't ready to help other people the way that they needed to be helped. I was trying to, and I was stifling myself with it.

The music industry isn't unionised in the same way Hollywood is. If I've got a problem, who do I go to?

I'm in a crazy business. The music industry is really tough, and I fight for my life. I just want to make everybody happy.

That's just the music industry. They always want you to write something like the one that was popular.

I've been through the music industry and with the Internet the music industry is not what it used to be.

We all have to start somewhere but I don't miss the music industry.

The experiences that I've had in the music industry have given me a learning curve.

There's entrenched homophobia behind the scenes at all levels of the music industry.

I've always felt like I'm on the outside of the music industry.

My music video for 'Go Fish' is really fun. Just like the card game, if you're dealt a crappy hand, play it the best you can and you can always pick another card and try again. It's my little message.

When I came to Mumbai, I was working behind the scenes for 10 long years. Back then, music video budgets were insignificant and I had no assistant directors or art directors for most of the songs I directed.

When you are in the musical theater and you are someone who looks like me, you are constantly bending yourself, bending your voice to fit the job they've given you.

As someone who's never been musically trained, I am sort of used to being in a position where I have to kind of do things on the fly because I wasn't trained as an actor, either, and I've very much learned on the job.

I grew up in musicals, and if you looked like me and sounded like me, you were the character; you were never at the center of the story.

I think it's just an awkward time right now to be a musician.

There are so many times that, as a woman in the music industry, you're asked questions no male musician would ever be asked.

One of the best things about Kickstarter and crowdfunding and the collapse of the music business is a lot of artists like me have been forced to face our own weird mess about ourselves and what we thought it meant to become musicians.

I think that dating other musicians can be complicated at times. Especially when they think highly of themselves.

All musicians and artists - we all got quirks that have to be put up with at certain times.