Yukimi Nagano Quotes

A tiny detail can make you feel completely different. I feel different if I wear something that I'm slightly uncomfortable in.

I really like our studio. It's definitely not in any way slick; it's very homemade, literally. Everyone has their own room to produce and write, and [there's a] big rehearsal space.

One of my strict, strict rules is a no auto-tune policy.

You write music for yourself and if you just open that door and let people in, the audience is going to grow and it's going to become more accessible.

If you listen too much to doubts you're totally lost.

I don't write hits. If you just open that door, you're going to get a hit.

Swedes, compared to Americans, can seem a little cold and introverted.

I find it a little stressful when you're in a really nice studio and you feel time ticking and the bill getting higher.

My lesson from that [songwriting process] was that I should go back to where I was and try to make that first pure even more strong.

I feel like I'm still learning a lot with writing lyrics. In the beginning, like the first record, I wasn't so aware.

I was really into R&B and stuff like that, so I really wanted to sing like Faith Evans or Mariah Carey. But I definitely don't have the skills to sing like that.

I've worked with a lot of different producers, a lot of different writers on the album, so I mostly feel like I learned a lot about what I don't want to do the next time around.

I didn't really like jazz that much and was unhappy in that genre. It was what I was doing just to get by and pay rent.

It's hard to start and think about having balance. Music is a tough industry, and you have to work your way to that luxury.

It can be tricky with branding these days, because everything is kind of branded.