Fay Weldon Quotes

I never have an intended audience. I just write, you know.

The only place where any artist feels liberated is doing independent music. I have had great experience making music for The Dewarists and Coke Studio. No actor, producer or label is telling me what to do with my music. I'm the boss. It is my life, my expression.

I do not write for a select minority, which means nothing to me, nor for that adulated platonic entity known as ‘The Masses’. Both abstractions, so dear to the demagogue, I disbelieve in. I write for myself and for my friends, and I write to ease the passing of time.

You write things that are of interest to you. There's no focus group.

Now comes the big question: What are you going to write about? And the equally big answer: Anything you damn well want. Anything at all .... as long as you tell the truth.

I'm really open to just about anything but I think the real dream is to be able to write my own thing.

Write what you like; there is no other rule.

Very few artists are as independent as I am mentally, physically, spiritually and technically. I sit in my home studio and record things by myself. I don't need to get anybody's approval or validation.

My job is to just express something that I want to express. And if I'm ahead or behind the curve, that's for others to decide.

I always write the pieces I want to write.

It does me good to write a letter which is not a response to a demand, a gratuitous letter, so to speak, which has accumulated in me like the waters of a reservoir.

The way I look at a solo project is, I create what I want with whoever I want.

I just want to make my music, and I want it to stand on its own.

I just write what I want to write.

I only write music for myself, I don't try and appeal to anyone else.

That's my actual payment, the fact that I can actually make something that I actually enjoy and put on repeat, and it's not related to anything else or anyone else's thoughts and ideas, it all came from me; I just love that aspect of it.

I don't work to any commissions. I do what I want to do.

I just write books, and I do it without any notion of what I should do or shouldn't do.

It's a question of not copying the masters, to look for something, good or bad, for oneself. To enter this liberated state of mind, one cannot copy the others.

Being a filmmaker in the digital platform has given me complete creative control. I can make what I want, when I want. I don't have to wait to book an audition.

I formed a resolution to never write a word I did not want to write; to think only of my own tastes and ideals, without a thought of those of editors or publishers.

Some stuff I don't even put out. I'll just be home, happy, creating something for myself, and then ball it up and throw it in the trash. It's less about trying to prove something or get on somebody's list or make a fan happy or make a hater mad or convert a non-believer. That's not the case for me anymore.

I don't make films for other people; I make films for me.

The poet enjoys the incomparable privilege of being able to be himself and others, as he wishes.

Doing my own album provided me the opportunity to say whatever I wanted.