Neil Young Quotes

When you're young, you're fearless and more creative, more of an outsider.

I really think the mind of someone who hasn't been welded into place by their work or studios or actors or this whole society is a wonderful mind to work with, so I'd like to do a big picture with an unknown director.

What I discovered in Berlin was this immense freedom because it felt like you could start any kind of project and nobody would care... and that's what I sort of adopted to my own.

My feeling has always been that 'Good Eats' would have never happened had it been left to a committee.

Vince Gilligan and AMC are really wonderful people to direct and produce for because they don't put the demands of any conventionalism on you.

I love to come to L.A. because it's one of the most inspiring places because there are no rules.

My thing is, you have to let young artists be young artists.

We do things differently. You don't have to worry about being part of a particular genre. You just go for it.

That's where the most beautiful art is always created, when you have someone not worried about what the outcome is.

I've worked with a lot of first time directors; in fact, I enjoy it because there is a certain beginner's mind that they bring into a project that isn't loaded with the way things have been done before. There's a certain freedom to it.

The TED Fellowship exposed me to a set of youngsters who had wilder ideas than I did - and almost all of them were pursuing their wild and crazy ideas without fear of failure.

I found out that total creativity involves a certain intellectual rebellion - not to become a criminal, but somehow. to be totally creating, you have to do things that are a little bit forbidden. You have to feel free, and we know freedom is a hard thing to get.

Cable had a latitude to move which created less censorship and bestowed upon the artists, the writers and the creators, more liberty to create their shows.

I think we've established a convention on the show that allows us to do pretty much anything we want to.

I refuse to imprison our acts in the rigid mould of sentences.

A person is a fool to become a writer. His only compensation is absolute freedom.

I'm a free spirit and that definitely comes from my upbringing, so it's definitely shaped me as an artist.

The people at MTV are encouraged to be very confrontational and declarative about their tastes.

Artists are traditionally resistant to labels.

There's a kind of a fundamental irresponsibility in playwriting, and the strength of playwriting comes from that irresponsibility.

I'd just like to inspire people to be themselves and do what they want and not conform to the rigid guidelines of the music or entertainment business.

Outrageous behavior, also known as the lunatic fringe, is the seed bed of innovation and creativity.

Irresponsibility is part of the pleasure of all art; it is the part the schools cannot recognize.

I am anti-ideological. Ideology destroys your freedom. It binds you to the herd.

The people who do make big discoveries are the ones who somehow manage to free themselves from conventional ways of thinking and to see the subject from a new perspective.