Duncan Sheik Quotes

Weezer isn't stuck in roles, so we just do what we want to do, what makes us excited.

I'm just going to go out there, and if people want to put me on the front of their magazine or whatever, that's fine. If they don't, that's fine as well. I'm just going to go out there and make my music.

I'm just excited that I get to put out the music I love versus music just for the sake of it.

I can't tell you how freeing it is to have my own label. For the first time in my career, I have total control.

Music is such an intensely personal thing for me, and I knew if I was going to do it, it would be in my own way.

You gotta make the movie you want to make.

When I got into the music industry, I wasn't focused on being the most famous artist or even getting a major record deal. It was just to make music on my own terms or create my own image, do my own hair, do my own makeup.

I don't really plan to be a pop star; I just want to be able to make music without the whole My Dad thing hanging over me, which everyone in my position goes through.

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.

The freedom you feel when you're actually in control of your own music is fantastic.

I definitely want to do music for the rest of my life. So I just want to make sure that I'm doing music in the way that I feel is the way I need to.

The movie business is very difficult but the music business is just impossible. So I'll play in bands and record and play songs with other people, but for me it's a form of expression that all I need is me. I don't need cameras or agents, I can just have a piano and sing and feel totally verified.

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

My music has always been enough.

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

I've written all of my songs, I directed all my videos. Every part of what I've done for music, from the visuals to the business, I did it. And I'm really proud of that.

Can't nobody make you make any music that you don't wanna make. Remember that.

My dream is to do whatever I want without any interference from the record company.

The business has changed so much that they're able - we're able these days in the music industry to be able to control our own destiny.

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

I just want to produce and create projects that I'm passionate about and I love.

I'm creating the kind of games that I like right now. I'm not being held back by technology.

And I love doing my own projects; that's what I've always wanted to do.

I'm not saying I wasn't flawed or amateurish. But you can never say I did anything to appease the music business.

The music I turn out these days is the kind of music I want to hear myself.