Music as a Source of Empowerment Quotes

All I can do is make good music and make it for the fans, not for anybody else.

That's interesting: people deriving their identities from their music.

The best thing for me is the amount of DMs and people hitting me up every day saying, 'Your music is providing me with answers.' That blows my mind, because that's what Alex Turner and Eminem were for me.

As someone who worships music, I believe it can never be ugly!

I'm not suggesting people abandon musical instruments and start playing their cars and apartments, but I do think the reign of music as a commodity made only by professionals might be winding down.

An American Idol is someone who knows how to change people's lives through music.

As a child I always wanted to be a singer. The music my mother played in the house moved me - Aretha Franklin, Chaka Khan, Mahalia Jackson. It was truly spiritual. It made you understand what God was. We are all spirits. We get depressed. But music makes you want to live. I know my music has saved my life.

You're living in a fantasy to think that music can actually change something.

Once you see how powerful music is and how it can affect people, then you want to use it to impact the world.

As a woman especially I've found a lot of freedom in music.