Jillian Hervey Quotes

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

I've made sure that in any situation and with any record label, I'm allowed to write my own music.

When I'm making my music, I'm writing it, I'm producing it, I'm playing all the instruments, I'm performing. It's my own world where I do what I feel, and nobody tells me anything.

I want to pave my own path artistically.

I didn't get into music to become a blues musician, or a country musician. I'm a singer-songwriter. In my book that means I get to do whatever I want.

I get offers to do huge-budget music videos with big production companies all the time, but I have no interest.

I've accepted the fact that Limp Bizkit is my band, one that I'm a part of, a band that I've built from the beginning. It does me no good to be in somebody else's band playing their music, like Marilyn Manson or Korn. Being in Limp Bizkit allows me to be myself.

I'm very hands-on with my own music.

Orlando's a part of me. The next guy's a part of me. And the next guy's a part of me. That's all I'm trying to do, is tell cool stories that people can relate to.

I write my own songs. I made my own videos. I pick my producers. Nothing goes out without my permission. It's all authentic.

To me, it's all about opening all the doors and getting people to be not only prolific, but creative and having control of their music.

I have a master plan as an artist. I've always said I'm not going to be punching nobody's clock. I will work as an artist to survive in this world.

I do like the idea of being an auteur in the sense of writing and being in your own stuff.

I'm not a slave to the recording industry. I have the freedom to make an album that I want to make and do it the way I want.

I don't have to compete in the charts. I can just be myself as a musician, a songwriter and play with the musicians that I really love.

I felt like when you're an actor, you don't get to fully creatively express yourself - most of the time, it's not your own writing or direction.

I am comfortable doing independent music; it gives me more freedom as an artiste.

I'm literally am home making my own music unless I'm asked to be in somebody's house writing music for them.

I've always wanted to keep my own personal creative space, and do everything myself.

Music was the one thing that was just mine, and no one could take it from me. I created it, dictated it, and it made me not able to let go of it.

If you look at somebody like Bach, he didn't need collaborators to write for keyboards, cello, violin or anything else. I feel the same way about my music. The times that I have worked with other people, I've been very unhappy with the results.

I started to see this common theme with the songs that I was writing or co-writing, and it all had this really strong, independent point of view that I had subconsciously been craving from the music scene.

When you make music on your own for so long, you get used to just doing whatever you want.

I think, for me, when I direct my own work it's just an extension of the authorship.

I know definitive points in my life and in relationships because of my songs. I write my music so that I'll never be bored of it.