Lisa Lutz Quotes

I don't tell anyone how to write and no one tells me.

I was determined to carve out a music of my own. I didn't want to copy anybody.

That's my actual payment, the fact that I can actually make something that I actually enjoy and put on repeat, and it's not related to anything else or anyone else's thoughts and ideas, it all came from me; I just love that aspect of it.

Ever since I began to compose, I have remained true to my starting principle: not to write a page because no matter what public, or what pretty girl wanted it to be thus or thus; but to write solely as I myself thought best, and as it gave me pleasure.

I think this, I think basically I'm not interested in people following my work or making work like my work.

But at a certain point, you have to take your influence and find your own voice if you want to become a relevant artist.

I want to be a genuine artist who has a say in what I do.

I've had a lot of voices tell me what I should be making. Personally, I would much rather live and die by my own hand. If my stuff sucks, then at least I made it suck. I didn't allow some person, some old dude in a suit, to make it suck for me.

At WSX I think I was very much trying to figure it out on my own and we were creating our own style and our own thing. I can only speak for myself, I was not trying to be anything. I was not trying to be like anyone else.

You can't say I look like this person or sound like this person exactly because I made it my own. I'm pretty, pretty influenced by myself right now.

I've always wanted to be my own player from the start and do things a bit differently to what the others do. I want to play my own way.

I always felt like an outsider of the industry, and now I feel quite comfortable as an independent artist.

I haven't tried to model myself on anyone. I have my own action, and that suits me.

I've seen Chance and the Social Experiment build their own careers in the way that's most authentic to them.

I am very much my own person and my own artist.

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.

In the era we came up in, you had to have your own thing.

I'd rather sink with my own vision than float with somebody else's.

I'm certainly not who people think I am. I always do whatever I want to do, and my films are personal to me.

I like my work to stand on its own as much as possible.

No one should part with their individuality and become that of another.

I try to please myself. I don't try to anticipate what people want to see.

You gotta make the movie you want to make.

I don't aspire to be like other drivers - I aspire to be unique in my own way.

To the extent that independent means you're willing to attempt to put your own ideas, personality, and commitment to the material on screen, then of course I hope I'm independent until the day I die.