Elfriede Jelinek Quotes

Doing the podcast, the whole reason to do it is just because I can do whatever I want.

It's been exciting to be able to go forward with stuff without 10,000 people saying, It should be like this.

There's a lot of creative freedom. Acting is a whole boatload of fun, but I prefer to do it on my own terms.

I enjoy total creative control right now. Nobody tells me to make it longer, shorter, better, sexier, more violent, whatever.

As a writer, you are free.

It's nice to really have the freedom to write what I want.

I am the freest author in the world.

That is the true joy of being a solo artist. I can do whatever I want. I can go wherever I want. I can show up with my guitar and my song, and it can sound a hundred different ways. That's the freedom of being on your own. The flipside is: That's you on the cover. If it sucks, it's your fault.

No, as an artist, you have to be free to explore all the corners of your heart. There are no boundaries.

I need someone who understands an artist's mentality. I couldn't be with someone who wouldn't let me have my freedom.

The studio is a time when you can do anything that you want to. You have that freedom.

I write what I like. I don't bother what people think about it.

I have no idea where I want to go musically, but I'm fine that way. I don't need to be faithful to any concept, you know.

From a creative perspective, we've been very fortunate in that doing it the 'VGHS' way gave us unlimited freedom. Whatever we wanted to do, however we wanted to do it, we had that.

For a long time I was free. I didn't belong to any type of studio, or any company. I kept a sort of freedom and a light touch.

I have the space and liberty to create.

I couldn't be an artist who was told what to do, what to be, what to sing.

In music you can find your own niche. You can do what you want to do. There is really no job description. You have to find your own way, and that's fun.

Metallica lives in a little bubble. We just do our own thing. We're not part of any trends or waves or fads. We can just do our own thing, all the time. It's a great luxury. I don't think we were really appreciative of it until recently, and really understood that it is what keeps us alive. It's great to be able to have the freedom to run around and do all this crazy stuff, and at all cost, avoid making another record, just to piss our managers off.

The true self seeks release, not constraint. It doesn't want to be corseted in a sonnet or made to learn a system of musical notations. It wants liberation, which is why very often it fastens on the novel, for the novel seems spacious, undefined, free.

If I'm going to go out to be a solo artist, it's because I want to do something different without having to wait on someone else's schedule or hobbies or be limited by other people's prejudices. I'd be kind of stupid not to exercise that.

I really have to feel a sense of freedom in my storytelling.

I think with animation there's a certain freedom that you're given. You don't have a thought at the back of your mind, that worry that you'll have to cut and go back to the top of the scene. You're not working with anyone else from the cast. It's just you.

Within reason, I can write what I like and spend as long doing it as is necessary. That is a luxury beyond price.

One of the advantages of not having a record contract is that you can make your own mistakes, you don't need somebody else to organize them for you.