Marc Maron Quotes

The reason I wanted to do a webcomic was that I could be my own boss, and I could call the shots myself.

I'm a businessman as well as an entertainer. The reason why is because I want to own whatever I'm doing. I don't want to work for other people forever.

I love working for myself. I've grown to dislike the Hollywood machine. Too much bull, disappointment, and quite frankly, untalented, mindless, and hugely disrespectful people involved in the process. I'll take carrying the load on my back, all the way up Everest if needed, to be able to steer away from it.

I can't tell you how freeing it is to have my own label. For the first time in my career, I have total control.

I want to be doing something where I'm running my own show.

Writing is self employment, so you can make your own schedule.

I would prefer myself to own all of my brand, where everything I am responsible for myself.

Taking over our own business and running it ourselves has tied us even more to our fans.

I never wanted to work for anybody else; I always wanted to be my own boss.

I had always wanted to run my own show and focus solely on the writing, and that's what 'Survivor's Remorse' has been for me.

There are great advantages of making things on the independent market. There's freedom and control there, and kind of a cleanness to the process that I like.

I'm just gonna do a podcast because it's mine, I can control it, I have complete responsibility over it, and no one can touch it.

The business has changed so much that they're able - we're able these days in the music industry to be able to control our own destiny.

My dream was to not work for anyone. There's only so many things I was good at - and how am I not going to work for anyone? I just don't want people telling me what to do.

I want to be able to go wherever I want to go, do whatever I want to do. I guard the material and the filmmaker.

It can be difficult to run your own firm, but the trade off is fewer conflicts and more control.

The self-owned and -operated business is the freest life in the world.

Nobody owns me or my music.

Freelancers are 'free' because they take risks - they don't like being told what to do. That's both exciting and daunting, because you have to police you.

It's hard for me to work for somebody else. I can work with someone, but not for someone.

I'm in the process of trying to find something that I could do on my own.

I need to find a way of retaining creative control.

To me, success was not having to have a boss and not having a day job. I've been living my own version of success since the early '90s when I first got signed. I haven't had a job since then.

I would have been content to just do studio work, making it on my own never really entered my mind.

I didn't want to wait around for some business entity to come around and give me money and tell me what to do. We just started releasing records as best we could.