Diane Warren Quotes

If I'm going to go out to be a solo artist, it's because I want to do something different without having to wait on someone else's schedule or hobbies or be limited by other people's prejudices. I'd be kind of stupid not to exercise that.

My art and my creativities were totally something that was of my own heart and mind. I could never let anybody dictate to me what I should write and how I would write it.

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

I've avoided situations where I wouldn't have creative freedom.

I definitely prefer to write under my own volition and see what happens.

You don't know what inspires you. You like to think you know what inspires you, but in the final analysis I don't think you really do. It's great to look at a blank sheet of paper, you know, and walk up to an instrument and not know what's gonna happen. It's the most challenging thing I do.

If I only acted, I feel like I wouldn't have enough creative expression over my own sensibility, and also if I only acted, the notion of surrendering my fate and future to other people is deeply unsettling to me and it would make me uncomfortable.

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 truly don't have any formula for the choices I make.

Usually when a song comes to me, I don't ask a lot of questions; I hear something, and I just let it out in song. It's like making a salad. Everything I hear, and everything I am, I mix together in a different way in each song.

I don't really premeditate what I write my songs about; you know, they just kind of happen, and I can't start writing songs to please a certain group of people or propagate a certain message all the time. That's just not how my songwriting works - it just sort of comes out, and the songs are what they are.

I like to have a thing suggested rather than told in full. When every detail is given, the mind rests satisfied, and the imagination loses the desire to use its own wings.

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 mean, at the end of the day when I'm making a record, what I want to do is what I do.

I have to believe that I know what's best for me. For instance, I choose all my songs. I never record anything I don't want to record. No one tells me what concerts to do.

I'm definitely using different parts of myself, but I think when it comes down to words and melodies, I can't really force anything too much.

I never question what to do, it tells me what to do. The photographs make themselves with my help.

No, I don't make my work in order to challenge or confuse other people's expectations - I only do what I find natural.

I think it's so important as an actor that you hang on to your own inner compass, because so many people want to guide you - 'This is what you should you be doing'. But I want to do different things.

I just don't think it's good to be around too much creative energy other than your own.

I don't want people to just hand me music and be like, 'Here, you sound good on this. Sing it.' I want to be able to say, 'This is me.'

When I write a song with somebody else in mind, it's putting the cart before the horse. The way I write best is when I allow the song to tell me what it wants to be.

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

Everything that I've ever made in my life is from my instinct.

I love creating things that come from my gut and my soul.