Russell T Davies Quotes

As a film-maker, I certainly don't want to be put into some box.

Some artists say 'Don't categorize me.' I'm saying 'You can't categorize me.'

I think people have come to know that I am not comfortable in a box, you know, and that I love music.

It does not matter how badly you paint so long as you don't paint badly like other people.

I want to be an artist you cannot categorize at all. You can't put a box around me. You can't put anything around me.

Art school had taught me it was far better to be a flamboyant failure than any kind of benign success.

Hip-hop can be limiting and I refuse to accept limits.

I don't like to be labeled, to be anything. I've made the mistake before myself of labeling my music, but it's counter-productive.

I don't like being put in a box. I just make music, you know?

Being an artist is in part an act of rupture.

Most artists like to think of themselves as rugged individualists, as independent characters.

All artists are now free to express their own personality.

When it came to my art, I went my own way and did not follow the trends.

I wanted to make my sophomore film as different as possible. I didn't want to be pigeonholed. I didn't want to be identifiable.

Artists are traditionally resistant to labels.

Stand up for yourself and fight for your right to be the artist that you want to be. There's plenty of pressure from outside; people tell you how to dress and how to sing or what to sing, but I always felt like if I'm going to fail or succeed, I want to do it on my own terms.

They're never gonna not put you in a box. It's something that they have to do, because nine times out of 10 people don't understand creativity.

I know that whatever I put out, whether people think it's pop or noise or whatever, it's always going to be some kind of a freak or mutation. It's not going to be anything pure that a lot of people will relate to. And that's fine.

Societies have been conditioned to believe that entertainers are just that, but I refuse to be put into the box of a puppet.

I'm an artist. I'm a musician. I'm not someone you can put in a box.

We do things differently. You don't have to worry about being part of a particular genre. You just go for it.

I spent the first part of my career trying to avoid genre because I felt like genre, in some way, was cliche.

I come from a petit bourgeois family, and I've always been drawn to artists and people who choose their own way of life instead of being chosen by the lives that people want for them.

I don't think that people should be confined to any particular aesthetic.

People keep trying to say I'm one type of artist and I'm just not.