Paulo Coelho Quotes

The studio is a time when you can do anything that you want to. You have that freedom.

People relate to the spirit of the band, which is to live your way and succeed on your own terms. There's no hypocrisy in being successful and still railing against conformity.

Never, and I mean never, allow anyone else's ideas of who you can or can't become sully your dream or pollute your imagination. This is your territory, and a 'Keep Out' sign is a great thing to erect at all entrances to your imagination.

Punk has always been about doing things your own way. What it represents for me is ultimate freedom and a sense of individuality.

I must create a system or be enslaved by another mans; I will not reason and compare: my business is to create.

When I was younger I was trying to do what I wanted to do, not what the game wanted me to do.

Unless you hit your television with a sledgehammer, you're not going to be able to be an individual.

I like being unconventional.

I always wanted to go against hat grain because it was too restricting.

I'd rather dance in a corner than dance in a circle.

When we got with George, he didn't care what was happening. He liked how crazy we were looking and dressing. I kinda liked being with George more so at the time, because George let us do what we wanted to do. But I needed both lessons.

What is the world for if you can't make it up the way you want it.

I'm a free spirit.

I am very into making up my own rules.

I have the space and liberty to create.

If you want your children to bring original ideas into the world, you need to let them pursue their passions, not yours.

We went and made our own scene and did our own thing.

I wanted to pursue my own thing - I had desires, ideas I wanted to accomplish, and I needed to be on my own for that.

We personally don't try to follow industry trends or themes. We just try and make something that we think would be cool and we want to make.

Seek freedom from the conformity of styles

I kind of go to the beat of my own drum.

Non-conformity is the only real passion worth being ruled by.

We understand and promote the notion that while children need to be guided they also have an entrenched right to be whatever they want to be and that they can achieve this only if they are given the space to dream and live out their dreams.

Daddy says the world is a drum tight and hard and I told him I'm gonna beat out my own rhythm.

If sex and creativity are often seen by dictators as subversive activities, it’ s because they lead to the knowledge that you own your own body (and with it your own voice), and that’ s the most revolutionary insight of all.