Harshvardhan Rane Quotes

And we had the perhaps unfair advantage of not having to worry about what an audience was gonna think. We were in a vacuum. We were making little short films, really.

When no one knows you, and you're just trying to break into stuff, it's so good because you can write whatever you want and just say it; it's just between you and the audience. There's no process or worrying about anyone else interfering with what you're doing.

I have no restrictions, no limits, no musical history to live with.

I don't have one role that I'm particularly fond of doing, and I don't really look for it to differ all the time, but I will try anything and do anything. If it's a role I connect with, I'll go for it, no matter what's involved.

I don't care about commercial success. I get to do what I love and communicate whatever I want.

There's something to be said for being given a tremendous amount of freedom as an actor.

I started writing in the '90s, so I was free to just have an eccentric career and not conform to some idea of what a black writer has to do. I didn't have the burden of representation.

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.

I've had a different kind of career on the periphery of show business. I've never been on any kind of corporate timetable whereby every six months I have to pop out a record like a pulping mill. I've called my own shots. When I get tired, I take time off.

I've never been told to do anything. I've never been hurried along by anybody - the kind of so-called 'pressure' of record labels doesn't really exist in my case.

I want to be as creative as I want. I don't ever want to have to compromise; I don't ever want anybody ever to tell me what to do, I don't ever want to argue with somebody because of my vision.

Being signed to a major label was never an option because I knew having the time to find out who you are without pressure from other people is so important.

I didn't want to box it in or say this show caters to this type of person... I think the tide of music is changing. We don't have to worry about rules. We should just do what feels good.

With 'Boxer,' we made the kind of music we wanted to make and didn't really worry about what the expectation was.

I love to play guitar. I've never really been the type of guitar player that goes, 'I'll only play this style of music or that thing.'

So when I went to Arista, I had a period of writing where I suddenly was unrestricted. I wasn't writing for a band for the first time. It opened up a whole other arena for me to work within.

The most important thing is to allow gaps and openings for people to make up their own minds - I don't want my film to be pretending to have one important truth to tell anyone.

Good Charlotte's the first band we've ever been in, and back then, critics didn't matter. There were no rules. There was no one we had to impress.

I just take every script as it comes along and take it from there.

I try to stay away from any genre. I like to just make music, and it just is what it is.

I don't want to be set in music my whole life. I want to experience some of my youth not being Tom Misch, away from the expectations.

NBC has not once given me a music note. I get the freedom to do what I want, and that's kind of amazing.

When you make music on your own for so long, you get used to just doing whatever you want.

I have never been stereotyped in one kind of character. I have been a part of reality shows, events, singing and dancing. No one has ever told me, 'She will fit only in this character or this look.' It has never happened to me, luckily.

Anything you spend a long time on, of course it would be nice if everyone likes it. But I think the strength that we've got is that we always concentrate on what we want it to be like and not really trying to please other people.