Michael Landon Quotes

I didn't want to do the whole, get the hottest person thing. I wanted to make sure every record felt right.

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.

When I write a book... it's the same essential approach to music as with books. It has to be something I want to hear or read. Hopefully the audience comes along, since that's the only way you can write righteously. I have to ask, 'What do I want to hear?' not 'What do people want to hear?'

I write what I write.

As an artist, the most important thing and the most special thing is when your intention shines through on the work.

I want to tell stories that I feel for, and I don't want to be a sell-out.

I just write what I write, produce the music I produce and try to give myself a chance to stay true to the art form. If you try to rein in an art form, it can be hurtful to what you are making.

I really believe in not compromising your art. I feel like I've never compromised my art.

I just follow what inspires me as an artist and a storyteller, and stay true to myself in my work.

It doesn't matter even if I am slow or fast as long as my films are honest and carries my integrity.

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.

I want to make music that I like; not something that I have to make because I think it's going to sell.

I'm trying to do the kind of projects that I want to see in the theatre.

Write a book you'd like to read. If you wouldn't read it, why would anybody else? Don't write for a perceived audience or market. It may well have vanished by the time your book's ready.

But as long as you're creating the art you want to create, if people start liking you, you shouldn't have to apologize. You want your stuff to be heard by as many people as possible.

My music is going to be true. I'm not out to sell records. I'm experiencing something, and it's what I feel.

If I get a note on my script or my films, what I say to a studio executive is that, 'You know, this is the film of my legacy, and I never want to be sitting in a theater looking up on the screen and seeing something that I don't believe in.' I will never do that.

When I make movies, I don't ever go out there to please anyone other than myself. I never try to make a film for the masses. I just try to tell my story.

No, it's not a very good story - its author was too busy listening to other voices to listen as closely as he should have to the one coming from inside.

It's not so much that I want to direct but that I have to. When I write something it terrifies me that if I give it to someone else and it doesn't turn out as it could have done, I'd feel as if I'd orphaned my baby.

As long as it feels valid to me and feels sincere, I'll do what I do under the moniker of Nine Inch Nails if it's appropriate. I would hate to think I would ever be in a position where I'm faking it to get a paycheck.

I think every writer has got to direct. If you don't direct, you can't protect your work. The only way to ensure that it's going to be as close as possible to what you put down on paper - and what you see and hear in your head - is to do it yourself.

I write about what interests me. It's very dangerous when you try to satisfy an audience.

My biggest challenge was to make sure that the songs I did were who I am.

Putting out commercial pieces and promoting them and trying to sell them to people is not necessarily what it means to be an artist.