Mick Foley Quotes

There's no way I'm going to write for other people.

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.

I have a hard enough time speaking for myself - I don't pretend I can be a spokesman for anybody. I have no interest in playing that role.

Work out of your work. Don't work out of anybody else's work.

My films, no one else will do.

If you consider the definition of authenticity, it's saying something and actually doing it. I write my own songs. I made my own videos. I pick my producers. Nothing goes out without my permission. It's all authentic.

Always take your own path. And do what feels right for you.

I write all my own raps myself, 100 percent. And it feels good to be able to say that.

I've always done whatever I want and always been exactly who I am.

I can make my own decisions, I can do the music I like. If I fail, it's me failing - you know.

I do what I do. I live my life the way I've been living it.

In the era we came up in, you had to have your own thing.

I didn't come to Hollywood to be subservient to anyone else's vision.

I was intelligent enough to make up my own mind. I not only had freedom of choice, I had freedom of expression.

You just have to do your own thing, no matter what anyone says. It's your life.

I try to please myself. I don't try to anticipate what people want to see.

I think that's important for all ages, to not be afraid of being an individual. I grew up on my own, as an only child, so early on I think I was quite capable of making decisions by myself and being an individual.

I don't have any influences, any heroes, it's just me.

I'm going to be true to what I want to do, because if I care what people think about me, I'm a puppet. Which I have been in my life. And you can't live life that way, man!

I don't care what other people think any more about me writing my own parts.

I won't work on anyone's else's script. I won't write for anyone else. I write my own stuff and make that when the time is right.

My primary lesson, however, was that I'm a solo writer, happiest when I'm making all the executive decisions. I've always been willing to rise or fall on my own merits.

It's a life's journey of finding ourselves, finding our power, and living for yourself, not for everyone else.

One of mom's greatest acts of generosity was that she trained me to be defiant. Her great gift to me was encouraging me to be the person that I wanted to be, not the one that she and my father wished I was.

It's important for me to be free and know I'm acting for myself. I do things because I want to, and that's important. You want to be your own person.