Garry Trudeau Quotes

You need to keep something for yourself. As a writer, I feel that even more strongly. I feel like I need to be able to freely observe the world. That's the way I like to move through the world; I don't need to be the focus of attention. If I am, it impairs my ability to write and to do what I do.

I learned that if you can proceed with a level of anonymity while still pursuing the thing you love, that's the dream.

I figured out that it was important for me to have my identity, just live independently and like being myself, musically.

It's nice to really have the freedom to write what I want.

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

I've always done everything at my disposal to avoid labeling what I do, or to avoid being labeled myself.

My parents were quite liberal with us, always encouraging us to be our own person and be creative.

My anonymity is something I treasure.

I love to be individual, to step beyond gender.

I am the freest author in the world.

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.

As I traveled from one country to another, no one knew anything about me. So I could be anybody, I could speak as I wished, act as I wished, dress as I wished.

And I found that when I built my own place and just shut the door, the creativity was endless.

I want not, that everybody hears about. Then I can't longer be myself.

Everyone needs to be able to have their own space in which to be themselves.

I appreciate individualism.

Punk has always been about doing things your own way. What it represents for me is ultimate freedom and a sense of individuality.

Creative freedom is a huge carrot.

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

It's nice to create something you believe in. It's even nicer to dance to your own tunes sometimes.

I think it's important to give young people the freedom to follow their ideas and pursue their interests.

Actors spend most of their time out of work, so I actually spend more time making furniture. The thing about furniture that's much better than acting is that it's just me. There's no director, no script - the concept is me, unless a client wants something.

I'd like, each time out as a writer, to reinvent who I am and what I'm doing. That's one of the great pleasures and rewards of the occupation.

One of the beautiful things about podcasting is that I'm not beholding to some public entity.

Freedom is what beauty feels like when it can most express itself.