John David Washington Quotes

I know that no one can really stop me but myself and that really no one can help me but myself.

Everything in my career is my decision - every picture, every outfit. You get one chance at this, and I never saw myself as being a puppet.

You can never control other people. You can only control yourself. I have definitely learned that.

Limitations can be hugely creative and hugely inspiring - so long as they are the ones you choose for yourself. I will not allow anyone to take anything off my palette, but if I do, then within that, I can be creative.

I'm more than a songwriter. I'm a creative person. Some people you just always see. I won't allow you to see me unless it makes sense. There's a reason to see me.

I feel, having the choices I had, I felt I had more control over my own medium than I did over photography.

I'm not blaming my mom for my life because I am responsible for me, and nobody can change me or ruin me easier than I can.

I allowed artists to play for as long as they felt they could justifiably continue to create.

My music - that's the one area I won't let myself be pushed around. But in other parts of my life, I'm a confused mess.

I'm in control of the positions that I allow myself to be in.

When you give an artist a canvas, you shouldn't tell him exactly how much paint to put on it, or exactly how sharp the images should be. You should let the artist get going.

All the artists out there, I ask you and beg you: Take over your ship. It's your career. It's your life.

You control what you can control.

We can control how we run, and that's about it.

I'm my own harshest critic but I'm also master of my own destiny.

I just try to control what I can control.

You constantly have to take inventory, not get on someone else's agenda. You want to write something that's poignant and moves people.

I can't control what people say, but I can control what I do.

I'm not here to put my music out on the Internet with no support and then say I got creative freedom. I've got creative freedom wherever I go: I don't create anything that I don't want to create. That's freedom. Since when does a company force you to make something that you don't want to make? If they do that, you leave.

I always say I want creative control. A lot of people don't think about that. And that's what every artist should think of - being creative and not just a puppet.

I think I just have to control what I can control. I can control myself. I can't control anything else but what I do. I definitely know I can do a better job at that.

I only can control what I can control.

At the end of the day, all I can do is control me and what comes out of my mouth.

I just control what I control.

Any time you turn off and let someone else make any artistic decision for you, you make a mistake.