Arundhati Roy Quotes

I don't intend to simply go away and write my plays and be a good boy. I intend to remain an independent and political intelligence in my own right.

I already feel that I am making a political statement by sticking around in music, when I am doing it so differently to everyone else.

A really important point for me is that I don't use any brand or corporate sponsors. So I have no responsibility to anyone but myself and the subjects.

As a novelist, you have to be free. Books can't be an act of filial duty.

People must insist on the right to say no, to be alone, to stand out from the herd. Creative artists can say all this in their own way and in their own field, by hard, rigorous work.

I don't like being put in a box. I just make music, you know?

All artists are now free to express their own personality.

People always try to find my agenda, but I don't really have one. It's safe to say that I make pop, but I think that I'm doing important music, too. I've just always done what I wanted to do.

When it came to my art, I went my own way and did not follow the trends.

If you like my music, great, and if you don't, whatever. I'm going to keep making it either way.

Making art in America is sort of a political statement in and of itself. It's not the best environment for that sometimes.

I've never wanted to be put into a box, not musically.

I never knew any painter worthy of the name who paid the smallest attention to what a critic says, even in conversation.

I am a poet; I am not a worker. I need to be free.

You see, the people that have a point of view and have an opinion and have some intellect are dangerous in the film community - they're dangerous.

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

This is my philosophy since 'Star Trek' and 'Battlestar': You have to be willing to have fandom hate what you're doing or love it and not care either way on a certain level, because you cannot become a slave to their emotion or their vote. It's not a democracy, as I'm always fond of saying.

People say you're trapped in this genre. You're a horror guy. I say wait a minute - I'm able to say exactly what I think. I'm able to talk about, comment about, take snapshots of what's going on at the time. I don't feel trapped. I feel like this is my way of being able to express myself.

I'm very selfish. I make music that I love because I only live once, and I'm an artist. I don't try to revolt against anybody, and I don't try to please anybody. I feel very strongly that I if love it, someone else will love it - not everybody, though.

As a musician, I don't wanna put out political soundbites.

I don't know, I really try not to pay attention to comparisons, 'cause I'm my own artist. I try to build my own sound.

I love this freedom that has been given to me as an artist to express myself.

I think people have come to know that I am not comfortable in a box, you know, and that I love music.

It's not like we were setting out to make a political statement - we're just a band with opinions.

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