Derek Waters Quotes

If girls hear that they can create and fulfill their own ideas of who they might be, those extraneous expectations can become less restricting and a lot more healthy.

One thing I've learned is that the best thing a producer can do is help you be you.

I've done a lot of collaboration over the years, but right now I'm enjoying writing by myself and just being me again for a while.

Learn the duty as well as taste the pleasure of original work.

I've always been schizophrenic; I've never been interested in limiting myself.

When you finish a series like 'Ugly Betty,' there are so many voices around you telling you what you should be doing next and what would be good for your future, sometimes you can't hear yourself. I've gotten pretty good at tuning everyone else out. Now it's just me; what pleases me creatively.

There are different sides to me; I wanted to make a personal film but I would not want to make any film that does not reflect me in it. At least, not right now. I'm just too young to be doing that.

I knew that I had to find my own voice, both figuratively and literally.

I don't necessarily love all the collaborations that I've done; the more I work with other people, the more I realize that I want to work with myself.

I just love the idea of going into a room and creating something by myself.

People speculate or think what they want to think, but it's been really fun for me to kind of explore what I want to explore.

I invented myself.

I can be a little messy and wild and carefree with my creativity as a solo artist. In a group, there's a certain structure, and everyone has a part to play, and being a solo artist, I can do as I please.

Life consists in learning to live on one's own, spontaneous, freewheeling: to do this one must recognize what is one's own-be familiar and at home with oneself. This means basically learning who one is, and learning what one has to offer to the contemporary world, and then learning how to make that offering valid.

You have to be able to make a real creative life for Yourself, before you can expect anyone Else to provide one ready-made for you.

When we're growing up there are all sorts of people telling us what to do when really what we need is space to work out who to be.

I love my father, but I have worked to develop a separate and distinct identity in different projects I have worked on.

When I turned 19 I kinda realized that I needed to write my own songs instead of singing songs written by other people.

For me, I want my kids to find their way. If they're interested in something, I want them to try it out.

If I'm going to go out to be a solo artist, it's because I want to do something different without having to wait on someone else's schedule or hobbies or be limited by other people's prejudices. I'd be kind of stupid not to exercise that.

I publish my own music. I'm creating my own songbook. It works that way for me; I'm very independent.

I feel, as an artist, I should be able to express who I am and the things I come from, and the places I want to also be.

I'm not entangled in shaping my work according to other people's views of how I should have done it.

People reach an age... where somebody else's platform is no longer yours.

I'm going to try to not let anyone put me in a box, and that certainly applies to the things I do outside of acting.