Chet Faker Quotes

I'm just excited that I get to put out the music I love versus music just for the sake of it.

I try to make my music interesting to me first, then hopefully other people will find it interesting, too.

I think every artist would love to just please themselves musically all day long.

My biggest challenge was to make sure that the songs I did were who I am.

Don't make music for some vast, unseen audience or market or ratings share or even for something as tangible as money. Though it's crucial to make a living, that shouldn't be your inspiration. Do it for yourself.

The music I turn out these days is the kind of music I want to hear myself.

I've heard some people say that I'm selling out, but I'm not. If I hadn't done 'Black Radio', and just kept on doing just piano trio stuff, I wouldn't be honest with myself; I'd be doing it to please other people. That would be selling out.

Mainly, I don't like it when music is made solely to impress people or in order to please business people; it doesn't sound good to me. If you're making music in order to become famous or loved by the masses... that's not what I'm about. When somebody's making music for the wrong reasons, I hear it right away.

I know what my sound is. I'm just trying to get it out there how I can explain it. I'm not trying to write or put out some music that doesn't represent me.

Whether it be in acting, music, or even in dancing, I only want to do things that I truly connect to, and with my music, it's everything that I am.

My music is going to be true. I'm not out to sell records. I'm experiencing something, and it's what I feel.

I just make whatever music I want. It's my obsession, and it's very fulfilling.

That's what I've tried to do: I've tried to make music that I really love.

I'm there to make a kind of theatrical music that is desperately missing in my life. And if other people don't like it, I'm very unhappy, but I can't do anything about that.

I felt my music wasn't aiming at anybody. Everything I was doing was because it was a good song.

Every now and then, as a composer and producer, it's important to write music for yourself.

An artiste can only be happy when he is true to his art.

I'm totally open to exploring different types of music. I just have to always remember to be true to who I am.

My thing is related to who I am as a person. The clothes are an extension of me. The music is an extension of me. All my businesses are part of the culture, so I have to stay true to whatever I'm feeling at the time, whatever direction I'm heading in. And hopefully, everyone follows.

I would rather die than be a serious artist, or a fake artist.

Write what you think is good, is the whole of the law.

In the music industry, we value large success. I realized that while I would like that, that it's not what my writing is about. And if I start making it about that, it becomes impure.

When I'm writing music, I'm not playing a character. I'm not Alice Cooper or Gene Simmons or someone like that, who has acknowledged that they are writing music for a character.

I've always enjoyed feeling a connection to the avant-garde, such as Dada and surrealism and pop art. The only thing the artist can do is be honest with themselves and make the art they want to make. That's what I've always done.

My greatest achievement is being able to write records that are real snapshots of what's going on in my life. I won't repeat myself for the sake of commerce, or to please other people.