Marti Noxon Quotes

If you're creating anything at all, it's really dangerous to care about what people think.

The minute you succumb to outside pressure, you cease to be creative.

Follow the path of the unsafe, independent thinker. Expose your ideas to the danger of controversy. Speak your mind and fear less the label of 'crackpot' than the stigma of conformity.

You can't ever create defensively. You just have to create the next thing that really speaks to you.

Christine and the Queens is about not being safe.

In all the writers I admire, the common detonator is their courage to walk naked.

You must be willing to risk everything to really express it all.

If you do things, whether it's acting or music or painting, do it without fear - that's my philosophy. Because nobody can arrest you and put you in jail if you paint badly, so there's nothing to lose.

I love Lady Gaga. She's not afraid to take risks and be herself.

I think the key to great art and great artists is to just fully be yourself and not be scared of that, and be the extremes of your personality. Show the extremes of your personality and embrace the imperfections. Embrace the things about yourself that you might not like.

Follow the path of the unsafe, independent thinker. Expose your ideas to the dangers of controversy. Speak your mind and fear less the label of 'crackpot' than the stigma of conformity. And on issues that seem important to you, stand up and be counted at any cost.

If human beings had genuine courage, they'd wear their costumes every day of the year, not just on Halloween.

I admire Madonna because she always did whatever she felt like doing. She went through some controversial periods when people rejected her, but she kept on reinventing herself.

If you start to just aim for what the audience wants to hear, you're already hamstrung because you don't have any freedom.

On the first album I was saying, that's just one part of me. And then I was thinking, well, am I going to hide the rest of me now just because I'm afraid of something? No. I'm just going to be myself.

If you're trying to please everyone, then you're not going to make anything that is honestly yours, I don't think, in the long run.

We can raise our sights high when we're willing to break free from being conformists who live a conventional life simply because we are too afraid to express our uniqueness.

I don't want to get myself in trouble - and I don't think I'm super important or anything - but I think it's so funny that when you look at the business and the way that people make decisions in their lives, whether they're in art or music or they're in industry, they forget that being unique is the answer.

When someone comes along and expresses him or herself as freely as they think, people flock to it. They enjoy it.

I remember a distinct moment when it was my junior year of college, and the content I was making was changing and not really myself, and I tried to switch back to just putting me out there. I'm happy that happened really early in my career, because that was before I started doing podcasts or writing.

Art requires neither complaisance nor politeness; nothing but faith, faith and freedom.

No, I don't make my work in order to challenge or confuse other people's expectations - I only do what I find natural.

Once you decide that it is the art that is important and not how popular and well received you are, you no longer have an albatross.

Discover your own style. Don't try to repeat what has already been written - have the courage to do your own thing and don't be afraid to do something different.

All good art is an indiscretion.