Cody Simpson Quotes

I'm just an artist and I'm doin' what I like to do.

I'm not an artist who has an agenda that's set by the work.

Every now and then, as a composer and producer, it's important to write music for yourself.

I am not really interested in only showcasing my life or work but plan to produce, write and create work that is solely my vision.

It's really tough to make a name for yourself without compromising and without fitting yourself into a real specific mold. When I made the choice that I would be involved in every aspect of music and not necessarily make music for radio or MTV, I was saying, 'OK, this is me. You decide who it is.'

I want to pave my own path artistically.

I feel like the point of being an artist is to have your own voice: to do it the way you would do it and not the way anyone else would do it. If you're a strong enough writer, then that voice is going to come out all the time, and I can't stop it from coming out, no matter what I do.

I guess I created LeRoy Neiman. Nobody else told me how to do it. Well, I'm a believer in the theory that the artist is as important as his work.

I did not go into the film business to be symbolized as someone else's vision of me.

I didn't think it was fair to my music to label me as the daughter of somebody - I didn't think it described me very well and I didn't think it had anything to do with my music.

I just like to choose projects that will allow me as an artist to make my art.

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

Every artist has to make their own statements and they have to live with them.

Most of the time, as an artist, I can be self-indulgent, fulfilling my own impulses, embracing imagery that contains poetry on my own terms, without immediate regard to an audience or the particular placement of my finished work.

I make movies I want to see.

There's no social realism in 'Tyrannosaur.' It's not about the social landscape or the political landscape or any of that. It's just about human beings. I never made 'Tyrannosaur' in reference to anybody - I just made it because I had to make my own films.

Do people have an idea of who they think I am? Yes, and that's fine with me. My music will speak for itself.

Giorgio Morandi's paintings make me think that artists may not totally choose, or even control, their subjects or style.

I mean, there are many other directors who are probably both more skilled and excited to adapt novels or work within certain genre conventions. I'd like to do that kind of work someday, but for better or worse I'm too drawn by my own material.

Great art is the outward expression of an inner life in the artist, and this inner life will result in his personal vision of the world.

You make a movie that is about what you want it to be about and let people have their reaction to it.

I have to be able to be the artist that I am.

I am an artist, and I have the ability and the free will to choose the way the world will envision me.

I think this, I think basically I'm not interested in people following my work or making work like my work.

The repercussions of what you put out and what people gravitate to in your music never registered at all. I never had that thing that maybe other bands have - a specific idea of what they are and what their sound is.