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I can't force myself to make up a song. Music comes to me naturally.
Most of me expressing myself comes through my music more than what I wear.
I feel this music has nurtured me as I've been immersing myself in it. I've felt supported by it.
The only thing that's ever made sense to me has been sitting in the house by myself making music.
I lose myself in music because I can't be bothered explaining what I feel to anyone else around me.
I wanted to take up music, so my father bought me a blunt instrument. He told me to knock myself out.
The more confidence I get with making music, the more I feel like I can just rely on myself to fulfill me.
I do music that makes me happy by challenging myself to go the extra mile and not do what everyone else is doing.
For me, music is just one road. I dont have a specific pursuit; generally. I just try to be more aware of myself.
It's not like I force myself to think of sad things, but... it's more that I make music because it makes me happy.
Music is so therapeutic for me that if I can't get it out, I start feeling bad about myself - a lot of self-loathing.
I still picture myself as a student of the music. I'm always trying to learn new things. Music is just what makes me tick.
Please understand that I make music to express myself, and if you know anything about me, you know that I'm nothing but honest.
I started music to be myself - to release and express - so I have to make sure that I'm staying true to me and making myself happy.
I was making more electronic and synth-based music, and when I changed my name, it helped me grow and liberate myself a little bit.
I was being very bad because I didn't know how to express myself. Music gave me an outlet to express myself and channel that anger.
The whole process of music for me is something absolutely honest and really naked and bare, so I never forced myself to write in French.
For me, I don't feel all the pressure. I make music, and I release it because I like it myself and I want my friends to hear it from me.
I have to detach myself completely from aspirations. I hardly ever listen to music anymore because it arouses all of this yearning in me.
But I like the small places myself. I mean, you know you can really feel it, and for me the music just goes really well in the smaller places.
Music's something that I really wasn't pushed into, it was something I just kinda chose, I just kept pushing myself, and it was all down to me.
I truly never saw myself doing anything other than music. There was nothing else that brought me this much joy, but also this much frustration.
Obviously, I want it to be legally downloaded, and I myself have spent a fortune on iTunes because, for me, that's the easiest way to get music.
It's a very intimate, closed universe, doing my own music. It's just me, basically. I have to inspire myself; I have to do everything by myself.
Because I express myself through the music, I want to be responsible in that expression and how it carries on well after I'm here. But that's just me.
Everything I involve myself with is an extension of me, so I take everything super seriously, from the music to the shows. That's the only way to do it.
That excitement of how music makes you want to dance - that's what got me back into it, and that's what 'Honey' is about. Me just being able to enjoy myself again.
I feel like the reason people feel like they know me is because I'm giving you myself in the music. There's where the connection comes from; you can't Twitter that.
I had to resign myself, many years ago, that I'm not too articulate when it comes to explaining how I feel about things. But my music does it for me, it really does.
In the beginning, I was searching for myself in my music. My music was for me. I didn't have the mental room to be conscious of the listener; I wrote to save myself.
A lot of people have told me along the way that my style and the music I do... is unmarketable. But the only reason I'm successful is because I have stayed true to myself.
I felt like I had a really bad case of writer's block... Music is so therapeutic for me that if I can't get it out, I start feeling bad about myself - a lot of self-loathing.
The more people do hear my music, they do realize that I'm being true to myself. So there is that conflict, but I think more and more, people are realizing I'm just being me.
Acting had been a hobby that turned into a career, the directing was a hobby that turned into a career and music just really allowed me to find another way to express myself.
I'm just writing, writing, writing. I keep these tablets on me until I'm inspired to go back in and make the music. I never take a break from my pen, because I pride myself on that.
It's one thing to be able to sing well, but another to be an artist and find your own voice within music. And that's what the goal was for me in my teenage years. I had to find myself.
It sounds a cliche but when I'm on stage I'm at my most relaxed, I feel most like myself. When I have the music and the costumes and everyone else around me, that's when I feel most free.
One of my goals always, when I write music, is that it's not only me sharing my story with the fans: it's also a reminder to myself that, 'Hey, I said this so that I need to grow from it.'
I just had to find something else to fulfill me. Always being a singer and writing, it was a blessing. My brother started making music that was the kind of music I always saw myself singing.
I have to be involved. Whether it's me writing by myself or with other people, I definitely want to have my hand in the creative process. That's part of why I got into music in the first place.
I'm Cuban and Puerto Rican and Miami is very Cuban oriented. Growing up around the music - all of the salsa and meringue influenced me as an artist. I find myself gravitating to latin influences, sounds.
I still maintain several different outlets of artistry, like my music, photography, writing and all those things. I don't pigeonhole myself into one thing. I do all sorts of things, and that's so important to me.
For me, living and making music, they're one thing. It's not like a job that I go to a studio to do, or a chore that I have to get myself in the mood to do, or something. It's the thing that I need to do every day.
I got into writing music when I was, like, 14 or 15. It was a very private thing for me because I used it as an outlet and emotional release. I kept it very close to myself and didn't tell too many people about it.
I would like to think that Ben and myself have begun a partnership that will take us into different areas of music that we can continue to write, enjoy and keep me involved with music other then what I do with RUSH.
Music is the reason I started talking to people. When I started singing in bars and trains, I began to learn the behaviour of people. Music was the bait that helped me get something from them and give myself to them.
When I was recording music, I'd record all the parts myself, and I wouldn't let other people in; that's essentially what Blood Orange is the result of; me trying to find the most comfortable I can be with everything.
The only people who have doubts about the sincerity of my music are people who come to it relatively late, off the back of having seen me in a film. Acting is about being other people, and music is about being myself.
I'm just me and if me being honest about who I am and putting myself out there in that way makes connections with people and helps people out, that's just repaying the favor of music because that's what music does for me.
When I started performing, I played acoustic music, partly because that way you don't have to worry about interacting too much with other people creatively. Asserting myself in that way was not really a strong point for me.