Art & Creativity Quote by Chantal Kreviazuk

Kreviazuk is selling a kind of mercy: permission to stop treating songwriting like an exam you can pass if you memorize the rules. “Press on” admits the reality most artists don’t glamorize - the work is repetitive, private, and full of doubt - but the pep talk isn’t about hustle culture. It’s about getting out of your own way. When she says “there’s no code, there’s no craft,” she’s not denying that songwriting takes skill; she’s pushing back against the gatekeeper mythology that says artistry is a secret handshake reserved for the initiated. The subtext is anti-credentialism: the “right” progression, the “right” lyric structure, the “right” scene approval are distractions from the messier job of making something that sounds like you.

“Let yourself shine through your music” frames authenticity as the actual technique. Not authenticity as branding, but as a kind of emotional leakage: the stuff that slips past your self-editing and makes a song feel inhabited. That’s why the last line lands with both comfort and danger. “If it’s meant to be loved and heard, it’ll happen” is a soft defense against perfectionism and a hard truce with randomness. In an industry where discovery is increasingly algorithmic, her faith in inevitability reads less like naivete than self-preservation. You can control the writing; you can’t control the world’s attention. So she builds a philosophy that protects the act of making from the tyranny of metrics, and treats release - not reception - as the real victory.