Nelly Furtado Quotes

I feel, having the choices I had, I felt I had more control over my own medium than I did over photography.

My dream is to do whatever I want without any interference from the record company.

Everything in my career is my decision - every picture, every outfit. You get one chance at this, and I never saw myself as being a puppet.

I believe in creative control. No matter what anyone makes, they should have control over it.

The ultimate thing is creating your own stuff and making projects for yourself. That's what Seth Rogen does. He's writing and producing a lot of the movies that he's the lead in.

You make a movie that is about what you want it to be about and let people have their reaction to it.

Stand up for yourself and fight for your right to be the artist that you want to be. There's plenty of pressure from outside; people tell you how to dress and how to sing or what to sing, but I always felt like if I'm going to fail or succeed, I want to do it on my own terms.

I've been wanting to produce for some time because I want to have more creative control over the things that I do and not be victim to the whims of other people's desires.

I love having the control over the end result and not having to go through some committee to get something approved. I feel sorry for people, like actors, because unless you're Woody Allen or Mel Gibson, they don't have much say in the decisions that affect their work.

I always say I want creative control. A lot of people don't think about that. And that's what every artist should think of - being creative and not just a puppet.

I can only control what I can, which is what I'm able to do as an artist.

I was always going to direct. I wasn't going to hand my characters over to anyone else.

I didn't come to Hollywood to be subservient to anyone else's vision.

I love to work. It's the idea of having someone else tell you how to make your film or how to sell it - that's the part I can't really deal with. I would rather do 1,000 things that are work than deal with one thing that's a political problem.

We've always decided ourselves what we wanted to put out as our singles and that sort of things.

I can't tell you how freeing it is to have my own label. For the first time in my career, I have total control.

There hasn't been one moment in my career where I felt I didn't have any control over the creative aspects of my records.

If I only acted, I feel like I wouldn't have enough creative expression over my own sensibility, and also if I only acted, the notion of surrendering my fate and future to other people is deeply unsettling to me and it would make me uncomfortable.

I don't believe that an animation studio should be an executive-driven studio.

I don't have to ask anyone's permission to do anything. It's nice not have to get decisions out of three, sometimes four people, which can be like pulling teeth. So the amount of control that I have over what I'm doing is better for me as a solo artist.

My job is to just express something that I want to express. And if I'm ahead or behind the curve, that's for others to decide.

I've got more creative control when I do music.

There are a lot of global decisions that you can make as a co-publisher, and only publishers can make those kind of decisions. At the same time, there are some things you can do only as a penciler or creator. I want to keep my hands in both pots, so to speak.

I make the kind of music I like.

I've never been one to sit back and go, 'I'd better do what the audience wants me to do, because I don't want to lose them.'