Camila Cabello Quotes

Sometimes I don't want to be in the confines of what a band seems to provide.

I'm not really married to the craft of jazz - I'm married to me, and my style, and whatever I produce.

I was trying to establish an identity in music, and black and white had nothing to do with it.

I have my own language and it's high time I put a little of it out there.

When I step on the stage and sing 'Wait for It,' I'm singing that for everybody. I don't mean I'm singing it for them; I mean, you are their voice.

All of us sing, all are equal, all bring something different to the group.

With Alkaline Trio, we are who we are. We never really feel too confined, but when we get together, there is an Alkaline Trio sound, and when I go off and do something on my own, there is an element of freedom that I don't have with the Trio.

Music and dance is universal, and I want to break borders and represent.

We are not the band. I am me. Ralf is Ralf. And Kraftwerk is a vehicle for our ideas.

My music is a whole reflection of who I'm as an individual.

I feel like I'm just trying to pave my own lane and just kind of make my own sound.

Musical expression is never primarily national, but is personal and individual rather. It is so deep, so profound, that it goes beyond and below nationality and gives voice to the most private feeling. In music there is never exact heredity. Each man is an individual.

Throughout African-American literature, the writer has, in a sense, been burdened by the necessity of pleading the case for the whole race. For example, writers of slave narratives tend to lose their individual voices, as they were expected to stand in for all other voices, which were absent.

I love working with different artist with different styles and different producers with different sounds, creativity is everything.

I always felt like an outsider of the industry, and now I feel quite comfortable as an independent artist.

The worst frame of mind to be in is what the fans like or what the fans want, because then you lose the authenticity of who you are as an artist and who you are as a person.

That's one of the great things about creativity. You labor away in a room, and when you're writing a film, it couldn't be more of a solitary activity or a lonelier job, but if you then write a film that gets made and goes out into the world, it kind of flies away from you. It's not yours anymore.

The whole reason to make a solo album is to express what you can't express with the B-52s. The B's are so much about fun and partying and dancing.

Most of me expressing myself comes through my music more than what I wear.

I'm aware that people enjoy creating categories that make it easier to digest pop culture or the media or entertainment or whatever. But I really have too much to do to fit into any easy category.

My music is not like everybody gonna love it, it's really what I make of it.

With a band I feel stronger. It's not just me and my weird thoughts.

I never thought I was playing black music. I was just playing music, the stuff I liked. I sang blues at parties and things when I was a kid.

No one wants to hear me over some smooth, regular beat, or just into the times. I try to do records sometimes that have a different bounce - maybe it's a Southern bounce or something. And people shoot me all day long.

We all need to have a creative outlet - a window, a space - so we don't lose track of ourselves.