Travis Knight Quotes

I criticize my own work pretty harshly.

I'm my own worst critic and I think everyone in the band is a perfectionist.

I do have impossibly high standards.

I'm my hardest critic because I know what I can do and I strive to be as perfect as I can be even though I know it's not possible.

Unless I can do myself justice and play well, I'm not going to play.

I am very demanding of myself.

I'm very demanding of myself.

I'm probably my biggest critic. There's nothing anyone can ask of me that I haven't already asked of myself.

I am my own worst critic and I am hell to pay so I just have to do everything to my utmost ability.

Even though I don't feel I need approval, it's still important to me to give a good performance. I'm hard on myself.

I've had to learn that not everybody does things my way. But I do expect the absolute best of everyone around me, and I'm disappointed when people don't expect that of themselves.

But I think it is always difficult to have high expectations of yourself or anyone else.

I'm the kind of person who, if I can't get something right, I get quite frustrated with myself.

I mean, I guess you could say I'm a bit of a perfectionist.

I think sometimes you have high expectations for people because you have high expectations for yourself.

Many people think of me as a perfectionist, someone who polishes and shines each song and performance. I've always been bothered by that assumption.

I'm such a perfectionist and I like to have everything just right, but at the same time I try to be as real and as genuine as I can be in my life and in my career.

I've worked with very few directors who've asked of me what I asked of myself.

I like pushing myself, and usually if I'm not good at something I just won't do it because I'm a perfectionist.

It's all about perfection, isn't it?

Perfectionist? That's not something I am.

If I feel that I'm not able to do my best work - whether that's my own fault or as a result of an editorial situation - then I need to stop doing it. I would rather not do something than do it badly or ineffectively. It's the only way I can live with myself and do right by the fans in the long haul.

I do have high standards. I look at everything I have done and think, 'Why wasn't that better?' Part of my motivation is from crippling self-doubt - I have got to prove myself wrong.

I think my expectations for myself are much more severe and much more direct. You can't work on a film for six years without being your own toughest critic. So you can't really be distracted by the expectations based on your previous performance.

Give a lot, expect a lot, and if you don't get it, prune.