AJ Tracey Quotes

Matisse was very clear about saying that you have to blow your own trumpet and explain yourself, which I think has been slightly forgotten.

I'd be quiet as a mouse if I didn't have the correct feeling about my music. I feel like I'm able to talk about it and say I'm one of the best because I think I got the music to back that up. I got the live show to back that up. That's all that matters.

I'm just going to go out there, and if people want to put me on the front of their magazine or whatever, that's fine. If they don't, that's fine as well. I'm just going to go out there and make my music.

My shaven head is my way of saying 'I wont take no for an answer,' it is my way of saying 'I believe in my creativity and artistry.'

I don't leave the house without thinking of how to represent myself.

I want to represent my name to the fullest: Ginuwine.

I don't feel like I have to prove a point and say that I love the kind of music that I make.

I've been writing way before 'X Factor,' and I've been doing shows before 'X Factor.' And everything I did on this show was me being me. Same way I acted in the show is the same way I act now as an artist.

Unlike a celebrity, there's nothing I won't try and nothing I won't talk about when it comes to my hair. If I were to get a tattoo on my inner upper arm, it would read, 'Change thy hair, change thyself.'

I am Gemma Collins. I don't have to answer to anyone about my fashion choices.

I am who I am. I'm a cool person, and I don't think I need to sell myself. I'm just going to let the fights keep talking.

I started using this outlet of creativity - you know, going to the studio, writing, meeting these writers and producers - as the best form of representing myself to my fullest potential.

I have some talent. So, I'm going to show it off. No matter what, I'm gonna keep going.

Lyrics is commissioned work, it is my profession. But poetry is my statement to life.

I always knew I was gonna be an artist. I was very confident in that.

I was like, 'I have to start writing for myself, to show people what I can do and what my point of view is.'

When I started making music, I figured the name Rico Nasty would give a background of who I am.

I fight for whatever I believe in! I've learned to trust myself. I went from a being a rapper to an artist.

It's two different brains: the mom brain that's, like, selfless and ego-free, and the on-stage 'Look at me. Like, listen to my song. Hope you like it.' There, it is all ego.

I'm not into makeup or dresses or typically girly things. But to me, those things don't really define what it is to be a female artist in this industry any more. It's being brave and courageous and true to yourself.

People around me tell me that I need a bigger persona and to act a little more A-listy because 'that's where you are but you don't act that way, so people undervalue you.' But that's not me.

To get the best idea of who I am, I would probably say listen to my first single, 'The Way I Talk.'

I'm not those kind of persons that's afraid to be on radio or TV, you know? I'm always the same.

I initially felt shy about doing painting because I wasn't a professional painter. I almost felt like I didn't deserve to paint. But I have gradually adopted a different kind of attitude about this.

At a certain point, I realized that I could draw anything, and there was nothing I should avoid - I could make it work. That's opened me up to being able to be much more comfortable telling any kind of story.