Ginuwine 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.

You have no control over other people's taste, so focus on staying true to your own.

There’s nothing more embarrassing than a person who tries to guess what the great American public would like, makes a compromise for the first time, and falls flat on his face… I would rather be a failure on my own terms than a success on someone else’s. That’s a difficult statement to live up to, but then I’ve always believed that the way you affect your audience is more important than how many of them are there.

What's the point if you make something that's not you, and you're successful? You have to perform it the rest of your life.

When you're an artist, all you're trying to do is self-express.

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

To the extent that independent means you're willing to attempt to put your own ideas, personality, and commitment to the material on screen, then of course I hope I'm independent until the day I die.

I don't want ever to be guilty of what my critics claim: doing formula without original elements.

To be a true artist, I have to be true to who I am now and write that way.

The minute you succumb to outside pressure, you cease to be creative.

Just trying to be different - when I hear something - I don't like to go trampling on other people's sounds.

I care so much about making things that are useful for people to have and listen to, but I don't care so much that I won't do whatever the hell I want. It's just one of those things.

The fact that I have been successful merely means that I can write and illustrate in my own way.

We are too quick to put labels on things. It is my profession. I get up and paint. Everyone wants to put a label on it, but I am a free spirit, so I fight against that.

I think every artist should follow their vision, their hearts is what they need to reveal, not something that society is looking out for.

My biggest challenge was to make sure that the songs I did were who I am.

The most important thing for me as an artist is having an identity.

I take my craft seriously, of course, but I don't feel the need to always play a certain character or a certain part or persona. I'm not going to cut something out of my life because it's not 'my image.' I want to be open enough that if I love something, I can do it, and it will add to myself as an entertainer.

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

A lot of people have told me along the way that my style and the music I do... is unmarketable. But the only reason I'm successful is because I have stayed true to myself.

Either you live by the barometer of the music critics, or you live by your own. I choose the latter.

I know, people have had different things to say about Marvel, about how creatively free they are or not free they are, but for me, the rule has always just been stay as good as I can possibly be, and stay one step ahead of the curve, and stay unique, and stay myself. And they seem to like that.

If people like something you've done - or don't like it - this shouldn't determine what you write or how you write it. Those are two separate things entirely: your work and the world's response to it.

I think that as long as you stay true to you when you're putting out music, somebody's going to like it.