Zitat des Tages von Bibi Bourelly:
People who are their own entity and aren't afraid to be who they are can move a nation. I believe the height of my career is going to be during the start of a revolution.
As far as songwriting, I'm not sure if they wrote all of their own stuff, but I love the Dixie Chicks.
I just am really bad at making new friends - especially in the music industry, because they're not really real friends; they're just music industry friends.
Me going to college was not an option.
It's hard to give your song away. They're like your kids.
Music is the way I talk to people.
All of my songwriting success happened within a four month time span, and my record label deal happened within the next three months.
At the end of the day, l just want to be myself. I don't set out to be like anyone else.
We cannot afford to have lies in music.
A lot of things change when one is granted success: random people pop up, and a lot of the adjustments are rough. My way of coping with them is through focusing on the things that I have accomplished and the things that are yet to come.
My music comes from heartbreak - from feeling what it's like to lose everything and not being able to express it through words because it doesn't make sense.
I believe that I exist for the people. I'm just here to try to make a difference, and hopefully, the people listen and trust me enough to contribute.
A lot of senior artists say that they support women, but they have a machine of people behind them telling them to be that way. l don't think it's always true and genuine.
My talent before singing is being able to interpret and understand my emotions. I've felt pain and felt it intensely, so every time I sing, I revisit it.
I always do what makes me happy - it doesn't make sense to live life unhappily.
I fell in love with singing, and through singing, I learned how to write songs. Anything you're consistent with and that you do all the time, you're gonna reap benefits off it at one point. You're not gonna get worse!
Music is a lot more powerful than anyone gives it credit for. I can sing something right now and make you feel something that you would not feel if I said it. If somebody can sing and connect to people just through voice, just through sonics, capturing an emotion, that's a direct string to somebody's soul.
I'm out here living my dream. People are listening to my music.
My goal is to change the art industry.
A lot of the songs that I wrote during 'Pt. 1' and 'Pt. 2' are the first songs that I ever wrote that sounded like that. I was in this phase - a certain creative space in my life - personally and musically.
A writer is an artist. They're creating things out of thin air.
Working with Rihanna has changed my life.
My songs are always on the tip of my tongue. It's always bubbling and brewing and about to come out. I can't really put it into words, but the best way to explain it is feeling like you constantly have some things on the tip of your tongue.
Daring is doing. Daring is asking something outrageous despite your chances of failure and rejection. Daring is going out on a limb by believing in something that no one else understands, and if all fails, daring is trying again.
I just want to unify people. A crowd full of people singing one song... that doesn't derive from anything dishonest... It's someone's truth.
I'm not a machine that just comes up with records and can give them away easily.
I think a lot of my angst comes from feeling unaccepted.
Sometimes I hate writing songs. Because it hurts sometimes. I'm very emotional.
'Sally' is just a song that I wrote talking to my alter ego. When I write, I don't really consciously say, 'This is what I've been going through in my life, and I'm gonna put this into words.' It's just a song that I kinda went in and did. Then, listening back to it, I realized, 'I'm talking to myself.'
I've seen people pass away. I've seen how fragile life is.
I can still feel unsure in myself, and l'm still insecure about certain things, but my desire to be happy and my desire to be free is very strong.
Opportunities don't always come dressed in neon colors.
I don't want to, in the last three minutes of my life, know that I lived it for somebody else.
Fortunately and unfortunately, what I love entails, and makes, a lot of money.
I'm just trying to give the world something pure for a change. We'll see what happens.
Before I was working professionally, I would do YouTube covers. But as a creative person, it was really hard for me when I wasn't releasing my own music. That felt unnatural to me.