Andrew Haigh Quotes

I feel like the point of being an artist is to have your own voice: to do it the way you would do it and not the way anyone else would do it. If you're a strong enough writer, then that voice is going to come out all the time, and I can't stop it from coming out, no matter what I do.

It's just I do things differently and I want people to appreciate music for what it is, and not because of a story.

The way I work is not the way that you work, and the whole point of any creative act is that. What I have to offer is me, what you have to offer is you, and if you offer yourself with authenticity and generosity I will be moved.

I learned early in my writing career that if I try to tailor a song for someone else, I'm usually off base. They're usually looking for something from you with your character.

To me, what makes an artist is a unique personality that they're not afraid to let show.

If you look at the common denominator of all the comics who have had big success, it's being true to their nature... that's what takes a long time to learn.

I'm just trying to be myself - make music how I make music.

When directors tell me they want a song like one, I tell them no song should be like another. I don't listen to directors.

I've learnt that I've had the best results from just trying to be me, trying to make a movie or TV show I want to see or write a script I want to read, and that's really all I can offer - being authentic.

I don't rap like nobody, I don't try to sound like nobody.

Whatever is about you that is translated into your art, that's gonna keep you completly original and fresh and I just think that, that's just the best advice I can give, to an artist creatively.

I stay true to myself and my style, and I am always pushing myself to be aware of that and be original.

If you're trying to please everyone, then you're not going to make anything that is honestly yours, I don't think, in the long run.

As long as you're true to you, you believe it and you make others believe it, then what you're doing is just art. If you give everybody a blank canvas and some paint, not everybody's picture is going to be exactly the same, but it's still art. I just do what I do.

I think it's important to have your own individual style and sense of self. It's kind of what I do.

So it's not so much that I set out to do something different, it's just that the songs themselves require their own individual voice and attention.

Bernard Shaw said that when you copy yourself, you know you've got style. And I feel that if you can write like you write, then you are true to yourself. And it's not an easy thing to do - it's a disgustingly difficult thing to do.

You have to be who you are when you do music.

I have many musical inspirations, but I would really love to just be me. My very own artist.

I think it's the hardest thing to remind yourself you have to do it the way you would do it. Because no one else is going to do it that way. If you don't do it, then no one else will - and the world won't see it.

When I was shopping around trying to get signed, I made it a point to say, 'This is who I am.' I dress the way I normally dress, and I just wanted to find a label that would accept me for that.

I'm not trying to make beats that are better than somebody else's. I'm trying to make beats that are genuine to me.

Whoever my films are about, they'll hopefully still have my sensibility, whatever that is.

Being in somebody else's thing and saying their words and not having any right to change it - I don't know how I'd deal with that. I'd like to think I could do it, but I just know I've got a dead particular taste.

My style is raw; my style is '95. My style is what I live. My style is my story.