John Cameron Mitchell Quotes

I'm more of a freestyle dancer. I like to do my own thing.

When you play with Miles, you are on your own, and then it's you who decides what to contribute.

No one controlled Frank Sinatra or told him how to sing. No secret group of managers has been telling someone like Jay-Z what to do or how to look. And no one tells me what to do except me and the people who believe in me.

I performed stand-up because I didn't have to ask anyone's permission. My set was never joke-centric. It was a performance.

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

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

I made a statement all my own.

To a certain extent, this tour is a celebration of individuality and that you can invent and reinvent yourself. You should have the power to be able to do that. Sexuality is a part of that. It should release you. It doesn't have to be an issue. It shouldn't box you in.

The way to write is well, and how is your own business.

I just like doing things from my own head.

Ultimately, you have to not worry about people thinking you should have played him differently. You're the one playing the part so it has to be yours.

I like to choose my own way forward. I really do want to create something that I personally like a lot.

I've got more creative control when I do music.

I'm very big on doing my own thing.

I want a part where I can use my own hair, my own voice, and maybe even be literate.

The freedom of every artist is essential.

You don't have to burn books, you don't have to rebel against teachers to rebel; to rebel is to truly own your own self.

I don't have a director. The audience directs me.

I've always had a love for making things my own.

Being cool is being your own self, not doing something that someone else is telling you to do.

I don't want to be somebody else.

When you're recording classic songs, you've got to kind of make them your own, and you can't always worry about what people are going to think.

I think we were just coming out and being ourselves, instead of operating within boundaries that other people had created. We decided to do away with those boundaries.

I enjoy wearing pins, and nobody tells me to do it.

People say I've gone against Hollywood, but I've tried to be independent within Hollywood, tried to be my own person.