Ed Sheeran Quotes

If I knew anything about what people wanted and was popular, I'd still be writing for 'Saturday Night Live'. I can only write what I want, and hopefully people will like it.

You hear it said time and time again by successful directors: You have to make a movie for yourself. Don't make it for anyone else.

You should do the sound that you want and not what others want.

If I can't make the kind of film that I want to make, then the hell with it.

I'm certainly not who people think I am. I always do whatever I want to do, and my films are personal to me.

My greatest achievement is being able to write records that are real snapshots of what's going on in my life. I won't repeat myself for the sake of commerce, or to please other people.

I never think about what others are doing. I do a film for myself, not others.

I'll admit, sometimes I've paid the bills with acting. You know the phrase, 'It's one for the money, two for the showreel.' I don't want that as a director. I don't want to compromise myself. There's a big old wide world out there. I want to explore it.

Don't write your books for people who won't like them. Give yourself wholly to the kind of book you want to write, and don't try to please readers who like something different.

If you're trying to please everyone, then you're not going to make anything that is honestly yours, I don't think, in the long run.

Ever since I began to compose, I have remained true to my starting principle: not to write a page because no matter what public, or what pretty girl wanted it to be thus or thus; but to write solely as I myself thought best, and as it gave me pleasure.

I write my own songs. I made my own videos. I pick my producers. Nothing goes out without my permission. It's all authentic.

I'm not really calculated enough or trained enough as a musician or songwriter to create a style in order to please people. Ultimately, I just have to do what I like to do.

I love anybody who's willing to stick to their own vision, their own voice, who's not easily swayed by money or by financers who are going to tell them what they should do.

I write the novels that are possible for me to write, not that ones I think will come across in a certain light.

I never wanted to be a feature - that was never the goal with my music. I didn't want to just live through other people's work.

As a director, I design every movie to be true to itself, and damn it if they like it, and damn it if they don't.

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 can only say that I myself wrote always as I wished, without a tremendous desire to find the latest thing possible.

I've had a lot of voices tell me what I should be making. Personally, I would much rather live and die by my own hand. If my stuff sucks, then at least I made it suck. I didn't allow some person, some old dude in a suit, to make it suck for me.

I really enjoy the creative freedom that I get when I produce my own projects.

I want to be as creative as I want. I don't ever want to have to compromise; I don't ever want anybody ever to tell me what to do, I don't ever want to argue with somebody because of my vision.

I just always make honest music. I just always kinda do what I wanna do.

I can only do music if I can do it the way I can do it.

I want to be my own artist and reflect my creativity.. I don't want to be turned into a pop princess; that's not who I am.