Felix Mendelssohn Quotes

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.

I think the moment you start trying to please a fan base is when you start going downhill. I'm going to always, always write about what I want, even if it doesn't necessarily cater to most of them.

Write what you think is good, is the whole of the law.

I try to please myself. I don't try to anticipate what people want to see.

I like to choose my own way forward. I really do want to create something that I personally like a lot.

I really enjoy the creative freedom that I get when I produce my own projects.

If you go for the money first and try to think of what other people want to see, you change your original inspiration and perhaps put out something that's less original and less personal and maybe less satisfying.

I don't feel like I'm a writer who works under any influence.

I love writing songs, but I don't want to write the songs everyone else is asking me to write.

You should do the sound that you want and not what others want.

I'm not trying to appeal to anybody. I just try to do my thing and make the best music I can make.

I am trying to be true to the work that I want to do and be allowed to make the choices that I want to make.

I've seen Chance and the Social Experiment build their own careers in the way that's most authentic to them.

Anything you spend a long time on, of course it would be nice if everyone likes it. But I think the strength that we've got is that we always concentrate on what we want it to be like and not really trying to please other people.

We only do what we think is good and what we're happy with. I do that in stand-up, I even do it with my children's books. I don't do market research, I don't have focus groups, I don't care. I don't care if it fails, honestly. I'd rather have something that's completely mine fail than something succeed that I'm not proud of.

I feel like if you let someone else create your vision, then it's not true to your band. No one can ever do as good as you want, or as good as you can yourself.

You really write the books you want to write. You can't take into consideration anything that anybody has said about you in the past, or what they'll say about you in the future.

The less attention I pay to what people want and the more attention I pay to just writing the book I want to write, the better I do.

I'm not trying to write for the masses. I don't care.

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'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.

You'll go mad trying to figure out what people want. I don't bother. I write the stories I want to read.

My greatest achievement is being able to write records that are real snapshots of what's going on in my life. I won't repeat myself for the sake of commerce, or to please other people.

I try to make my music interesting to me first, then hopefully other people will find it interesting, too.

If I'm going to go out to be a solo artist, it's because I want to do something different without having to wait on someone else's schedule or hobbies or be limited by other people's prejudices. I'd be kind of stupid not to exercise that.