M. J. Rose Quotes

I'm certainly not who people think I am. I always do whatever I want to do, and my films are personal to me.

I just don't like to do a lot of the normal things expected of other artists. I'm not trying to be difficult; I'm just trying to stick with what it is I want to do.

To the extent that independent means you're willing to attempt to put your own ideas, personality, and commitment to the material on screen, then of course I hope I'm independent until the day I die.

To refrain from imitation is the best revenge.

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'm not entangled in shaping my work according to other people's views of how I should have done it.

Rock is all about writing your own script; it's all about pioneering.

No, because I don't want to hear what's hot and feel I have to copy it. I'll just make up my own thing.

I don't chase what I hear on the radio. I try not to compete with anybody.

When I teach writing, I have a mantra: 'Be a first-rate version of yourself, and not a second-rate version of another writer.'

Being cool is being your own self, not doing something that someone else is telling you to do.

Any kind of creativity is not settling down into a happy little space. I don't try to be mellow or anything. I think I have quite... my voice is what it is, no matter what I'm singing, it's always going to sound like me. There's not too far I could go. I sound like myself. I hope that I haven't put any boundaries on anything.

I've never tried to emulate anyone. I've never idolized people, I prefer instead to get off on attitudes.

I love people that willfully defy what you're supposed to be and create their own definition of their selves.

As far as things I avoid, I always avoid following trends just because they're trends.

I think it's so important as an actor that you hang on to your own inner compass, because so many people want to guide you - 'This is what you should you be doing'. But I want to do different things.

Be your own person and don't listen to anyone who says differently. We are all unique!

My art and my creativities were totally something that was of my own heart and mind. I could never let anybody dictate to me what I should write and how I would write it.

I don't follow trends. I just do what I like doing.

I'm somebody who doesn't believe in conforming to maybe whatever is on the radio.

I've had a lot of voices tell me what I should be making. Personally, I would much rather live and die by my own hand. If my stuff sucks, then at least I made it suck. I didn't allow some person, some old dude in a suit, to make it suck for me.

I never wanted to be like anyone growing up. It's always been about the enjoyment, and I've just never wanted to imitate anyone.

At WSX I think I was very much trying to figure it out on my own and we were creating our own style and our own thing. I can only speak for myself, I was not trying to be anything. I was not trying to be like anyone else.

Trends keep changing, but I have and will always do what I like to do!

I don't want to emulate anyone.