David Guterson Quotes

I needed freedom to really express myself. That's really what Justified is about.

Whenever somebody tells me they want me to stop singing, I'm gone.

We wish to plead our own cause. Too long have others spoken for us.

Self-expression is the dominant necessity of human nature.

Freedom and constraint are two aspects of the same necessity, the necessity of being the man you are and not another. You are free to be that man, but not another.

Freedom and constraint are two aspects of the same necessity, which is to be what one is and no other.

All I have is a voice.

I really do try to let the identity or voice inside come out.

I've always said that I use my voice as an instrument. It was something I created myself, and I said, 'Have voice, will travel.'

I've always done everything at my disposal to avoid labeling what I do, or to avoid being labeled myself.

Despite everything, no one can dictate who you are to other people.

People can dress you the way they want, they can do your makeup the way they want, but they can never take away your voice.

During 'Hawthorne', I was constantly trying not to be too outrageous and keep it serious. This has been so refreshing for me because it's such a good outlet for the inner me to just be. That's the whole point of 'Glee' anyways - to just be who you are and that's enough. I really feel that way on set.

I feel like I have to have a voice.

If you deny people their own voice, you'll have no idea of who they were.

Creativity is the greatest expression of liberty.

My voice is an instrument.

I found that not having a public profile was not hurting the work, and it freed me up to be the satirist I wanted to be.

I believe every one of us possesses a fundamental right to tell our own story.

I don't want to be limited or ghettoized in any way.

I don't like the monikers, and I don't like being pigeonholed. You know, I'm a human being.

To me, music has to be about freedom. It's the most important thing in my life.

It is always the same: once you are liberated, you are forced to ask who you are.

I'd like, each time out as a writer, to reinvent who I am and what I'm doing. That's one of the great pleasures and rewards of the occupation.

I find singing as somebody else very liberating, it just frees me up.