Paul S. Kemp Quotes

It feels very, very good to make a film freely, to work without having to wait years for script approval, without looking over your shoulder.

I don't write for an audience, I don't think whether my book will sell, I don't sell it before I finish writing it.

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.

I'm a writer, and I will write what I want to write.

I do not write for an audience.

I remember thinking during those times that I wanted to write in a way where there are no rules.

Doing my own album provided me the opportunity to say whatever I wanted.

There's an open door now more than ever to be making any type of beats that you want.

I had a lot more creative freedom back in the day.

In the band Semi-Precious Weapons, I got to sing, wear, and say exactly what I wanted for ten years.

In my first label Shrapnel Records I wasn't expected to do anything except the creative music that I wanted to do. I was my own boss, which is great.

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

It's what I always dreamed of: that you can make TV and everyone would get out of your way and you follow your vision without watering it down.

I am of the firm opinion that no one should tell writers what to do, or what to write, or how to write.

So now the floodgates are open to the delight of pure form, whatever its origin. Anything goes.

My greatest accomplishment is the freedom for doing what I want to do with my music...I love my freedom so I'm happy I am a free artist.

Ultimately I want to be able to create whatever I want whenever I want. And if that doesn't work, I don't mind just doing weird plays.

An artist must not feel under any constraint.

I've always allowed myself to go on journeys creatively and emotionally, and never put, like, limits on myself.

So, what is creative freedom? We can make what we want, how we want. The only constraint is: not for any budget.

Robert Gober, for example. He doesn't seem like somebody who is just going to show in a gallery that asks him to show. He's just making his work, and when he's ready, he's going to show it.

We need to give artists a lot of free room to create.

I always figure there are novels and short stories, and in those, I'm God. No one tells me what to do. I don't have to lose a page, or cut anything, it's just mine. Then there are other things where you're up against realities.

You're the artist - you make the music that you want to make.

When I want to go be Chickenfoot, I go out and I'm the artist. It's all musical.