Quotes About Artistry

I got a guitar when I was six and, instead of learning other people's songs, started to try to write my own, even at that young age.

Bob Dylan is quite a songwriter, and a great singer and musician. I won't bother with comparing myself to him, but I will say that I heard his records at a very young age and I still listen to all his records.

I stumbled into soul music at a very young age. It had something that really spoke to me.

I'd say that, first and foremost, I'm a performer; I started performing when I was four years old, and being on stage from a young age set me up.

Art-making was part of my daily life from a very young age, and I still love that kind of everyday art-making.

I've always known from a young age that creativity is natural.

From a very young age, my main thing was always entertaining.

Definitely, it's hard being a young artist and being taken seriously.

It's kind of like I'm Phil Spector, and I'm forcing a young girl to make pop music and perform exhaustively. Except, instead of it being someone else, that girl is also me.

There's not really too many artists that young girls and young people can look up to and be inspired by. So I take it as my responsibility, sometimes, to be the person who has the voice to give people some truth about what we're doing.

Because I was a dancer when I was a kid, I have so much empathy for these young girls who are so drawn to something lovely in music and in movement, and yet they encounter a world full of judgment and criticism of 11-year-old artists and bodies.

I am passionate about dance, I grew up in dance, I was a young kid competing in dance, so I have a great perspective on it.

Young kids should be doing music that has shock value. They'll grow out of it.

There is a lot of pressure to top yourself... to come up with a 'Rumours II,' and that seemed like a trap.

I like making all kinds of music, it really depends on the moment. Sometimes I feel like making a weird trap song, and sometimes I can't even attach a track to a genre.

I have different sounds... I don't want to be just that girl that sings reggaeton or trap music.

Rules limit you, and once you start thinking about what the audience wants or expects, it becomes a trap that a lot of artists fall into.

It's natural for me to step into the studio and come out with a country, rock, or trap song. I'd feel pressured if I was focused on making songs that gave me high streams or something, but I don't think about those kinds of things.

Being on a trapeze is like dreaming. I feel totally outside of myself when I'm flying. You know, designing shoes, my imagination is flying in my drawings.

I'm never gonna be somebody who's gonna fall down from the sky on a trapeze. That's not me. I really want to make sure that my focus stays on connecting with the audience.

Sometimes you're trapped in writing songs and you don't have enough distance from what you do anymore and you need the talent and the years of other people to come and jump in.

Music is only special when it's coming from a genuine place - it's just energy trapped in a bottle.

I'm kind of like a rapper trapped in a singer's body.

I think one of the traps of theater - what makes it so amazing is that it's not able to be mass-produced, but it also makes it hard to get work seen by people because if you're a creator, you do a cabaret or something, and maybe 100 people will see it and then it ends the night that you close it.