Himesh Reshammiya Quotes

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

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

Everything in my career is my decision - every picture, every outfit. You get one chance at this, and I never saw myself as being a puppet.

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.

I like to choose my own way forward. I really do want to create something that I personally like a lot.

I do love being solo because I can have more of my own creative input to every aspect of my career.

In my life, I've never really listened to when people start forming opinions on how you should be doing things.

I don't much like being directed. I enjoy being allowed to play.

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

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

I don't like being told what to do, and I don't need to be told what my record should sound like.

When 'Siruthai' became a hit, there was suddenly a lot at stake. A lot of people were telling me what to do and what not to. But at some point, you realise that's not the way to go. Good or bad, you need to be making your own choices.

I have to follow my own vision.

I am trying to be true to the work that I want to do and be allowed to make the choices that I want to make.

I don't like people telling me what to do, or trying to MAKE me write songs.

I feel, having the choices I had, I felt I had more control over my own medium than I did over photography.

My work is not generally in the commercial sector. However, I'm not worried by the commercial sector. I refuse to work in any other way except the way that I work.

I don't tell anyone how to write and no one tells me.

I don't have a director. The audience directs me.

I've been lucky enough to have had the luxury of being able to make the picture I've wanted to make each time on my own terms and without compromise.

I want to do what I want when I want to do it not be dictated to by audiences.

In a very slow way, I found my path. Even now, I think, 'If I can't do it my way, I'd rather not do it.'

The freedom you feel when you're actually in control of your own music is fantastic.

I can't do anything I want to. I mean, I can't have my own TV show. I can't have my own movie. But within my little world, nobody tells me what to put on the albums.

It is important not to copy other people's careers but set the tone of who you want to be. My father's always encouraged me to do that.