Matt Sydal Quotes

What I've learned from different designers is that it's key to be true to who you are and your vision. That's always been my line of thinking. Working through the whole design process, I don't want to create something I wouldn't be proud to wear.

The most important thing for me as an artist is having an identity.

When I was coming up, we weren't trying to get a hit or get paid, we were just trying to do our thing. The only thing we were really trying to do was to be recognized for our originality.

The more people do hear my music, they do realize that I'm being true to myself. So there is that conflict, but I think more and more, people are realizing I'm just being me.

Listen, I am who I am. I have always been true to who I am and that is why the fans support me.

I just think I want my work to represent me fully.

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.

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

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

I think the key to making records generally is to make 'em for yourself, regardless of the climate in the business.

To be a true artist, I have to be true to who I am now and write that way.

If I like it, it's gonna be on my album. You can't please everyone.

I admire anyone with their own sense of personal style.

I know that after my letter there will be undoubtedly an 'opinion' about me, but I am not afraid of it. I openly say what I think. Talent, of which we are proud, must not be submitted to the assaults of the past.

Just trying to be different - when I hear something - I don't like to go trampling on other people's sounds.

You know, we have our own audience, and it's not like - they just know we're not going to do certain things.

First and foremost, you have to make the movie for yourself. And that's not to say, to hell with everyone else, but what else have you got to go on but your own taste and judgment?

You have to understand your own personal DNA. Don't do things because I do them or Steve Jobs or Mark Cuban tried it. You need to know your personal brand and stay true to it.

All I can do is try to create my own brand and have people appreciate me for that.

Great personal style is an extreme curiosity about yourself.

When I left the Royal College, I decided I would only make paintings that I would want to look at myself, that felt close to my life.

To maintain one's individuality, integrity, and true personality in the theatre is a big task.

I don't like to hold back. Especially with who I am and what I do, it's all me. Everything's my name; it's what I do. It's how I feel. It's what I think.

Just stick to what you feel you sing best at, no matter what it is.

Your own material is your identity, and I think that's what you need to stick to.