Kenny Omega Quotes

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.

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

I've had a lot of voices tell me what I should be making. Personally, I would much rather live and die by my own hand. If my stuff sucks, then at least I made it suck. I didn't allow some person, some old dude in a suit, to make it suck for me.

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

I've never been one to sit back and go, 'I'd better do what the audience wants me to do, because I don't want to lose them.'

You can wear whatever, be whatever, do whatever you want.

When I was young, I didn't want to do traditional painting and calligraphy. I deliberately wanted to separate from my father so I could feel I existed myself.

The thing is, my life is a country song. I don't need to be manufactured, and I don't need anyone to tell me what to say or what to sing.

I think it's so important as an actor that you hang on to your own inner compass, because so many people want to guide you - 'This is what you should you be doing'. But I want to do different things.

I do not want to work to correspond to an image.

I'm my own person. You can't generalise about people.

I want to be free to be any version of me I feel like being. I don't want to be McDonald's that serves the same food every time.

Trends keep changing, but I have and will always do what I like to do!

I've got to do it my way. I can't compromise and be someone else.

I'm not trying to appeal to anybody. I just try to do my thing and make the best music I can make.

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

Harmelody allows everybody to be an individual who does not have to imitate anybody else.

Metallica lives in a little bubble. We just do our own thing. We're not part of any trends or waves or fads. We can just do our own thing, all the time. It's a great luxury. I don't think we were really appreciative of it until recently, and really understood that it is what keeps us alive. It's great to be able to have the freedom to run around and do all this crazy stuff, and at all cost, avoid making another record, just to piss our managers off.

I was born alone, I'm gonna die alone. I have my own identity. I'm my own person, and no two people are the same.

You need to be your own individual.

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

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 want to be remembered as somebody that tried to respect her integrity as an artist and as a person. And I don't want to be in any box. I don't want to be one thing.

I love to be individual, to step beyond gender.

People must insist on the right to say no, to be alone, to stand out from the herd. Creative artists can say all this in their own way and in their own field, by hard, rigorous work.