Hideo Kojima Quotes

I'm not just a boy toy. I have feelings and dreams like anybody else.

Music is just kind of an expression of who I am. It's what I do.

As we get more technically driven, the importance of people becomes more than it's ever been before. You have to utilize who you are in your work. Nobody else can do that: nobody else can pull from your background, from your parents, your upbringing, your whole life experience.

I think self-expression is present at all times, and whether or not you're talking about the outside world or your responses to it depends on the moment and the subject.

There are lots of artists in the world. But there's only one you. And the only person who has your point of view is you. If you decide not to make things, all you've done is deprive the world of all the stuff that only you could have brought to it.

Self-expression is the dominant necessity of human nature.

When we are convinced of some great truths, and feel our convictions keenly, we must not fear to express it, although others have said it before us. Every thought is new when an author expresses it in a manner peculiar to himself.

I think talent, especially in acting, is being wholly yourself within the context of yourself.

You've got to show your soul otherwise you're just a piece of equipment.

My music is the most 'me' thing about me. Everything is in my music.

But I'm the only one who can paint the moon, because I'm the only one who knows whether that's right or not.

Nowadays I think it's really important that designers are really unique and individual.

If you can understand the inner life, then you can wear the uniform, the tattoos, or whatnot and realize that the things that are different about us become superficial.

I was obsessed with this idea that these things that you collect, they just say so much about who you are. I can't say it came from hard-nosed business analysis... It was just something I really want to see built.

I'm starting to find my own style.

I'm a human being, I'm a friend, I'm a mom, I'm a writer, and I'm an artist. I do play electric guitar and all of that, but in the end, I'm just a person.

I've never tried to be anything but me. Even with Slipknot, where it can almost feel like a roll sometimes, it's still a part of who I am. It's a very strong and passionate part of who I am, and I'm lucky enough to have an audience that is really open to what I do.

Things aren't interesting if you level them. It's the voice that's interesting.

I didn't want to be like everybody else. Art was my religion.

Don't follow a trend. Follow your heart.

There's no wrong way of doing art. It's an expression of the individual.

I think it is very important in this business to be an individual.

Of course I am proud of my dad and where I come from, but I do have my own way of working my own style.

You do not separate the human being from the actions he does or the actions which surround him, but you see what it is like to break these actions up in different ways, to allow passion - and it is passion - to appear for each person in his own way.

Everybody has their thing they like or don't like to see. It's all in your head. That's why people take their own pictures, because it's difficult for someone else to capture what you seek.