ASAP Rocky Quotes

As long as what you do reaches out to people, I don't think there's any reason to stop yourself from doing anything.

We're starting to push the envelope in terms of the expectations, and you can also have your own style, personality and sense of humor, because now we're allowed to.

Not to be boxed in, to be able to transcend boundaries: for an artist, it's essential.

When you're an artist, all you're trying to do is self-express.

It's important to me to try and expose young people to the things they believe are off-limits to them. I tell them, 'There are no walls, only the ones we put up.' My advice to young people looking at my life is not to follow my footprint but to go out there and make their own.

I don't think of myself as Scottish or lesbian when I sit down and write. I am glad I have broken out of that limited audience.

My mother had a saying: 'Kamala, you may be the first to do many things, but make sure you're not the last.'

As a director, I have the greatest job in the world, but if I don't push the boundaries, then what's the point of having it?

Don't look at all at what other people are doing. Think of what you're doing as completely fresh because if you imitate you're dead.

Freedom is the right to question, and change the established way of doing things.…It is the understanding that allows us to recognize shortcomings and seek solutions. It is the right to put forth an idea, scoffed at by the experts, and watch it catch fire among the people. It is the right to dream-- to follow your dream, or stick to your conscience, even if you're the only one in a sea of doubters.

If you look at somebody like Sam Bee, she got to create her own thing without any expectations that there was a show there. That was probably liberating for them.

Punk is all about doing what you want and being yourself. And that's what rap is too.

But, by just being myself, I end up touching a lot more people who might never have paid much attention to a female rapper.

To be at acting school, it was kind of the first time you felt the freedom to be as much of yourself as you wanted. People weren't going to judge you.

Weezer isn't stuck in roles, so we just do what we want to do, what makes us excited.

Don't be a blueprint. Be an original.

Don't ever try and be like anybody else and don't be afraid to take risks.

You can do anything and be a star. You can dress like however you want, and you can do whatever you want. If you wanna wear meat suits like Lady Gaga, good. She's freaking amazing! She's doing that, and she's unbelievable. I can wear T-shirts and still be great, too. So that's just what I'm proving to people.

I don't want ever to be guilty of what my critics claim: doing formula without original elements.

During 'Hawthorne', I was constantly trying not to be too outrageous and keep it serious. This has been so refreshing for me because it's such a good outlet for the inner me to just be. That's the whole point of 'Glee' anyways - to just be who you are and that's enough. I really feel that way on set.

The distance between the people who made the games and the people playing them wasn't that big. It was the spirit of independence. The programmers were a lot like you.

Now I'm old... maybe I'm still an eccentric hippie. There's a wonderful freedom in the eccentricity - you can go places, you can be wacky, and you don't have to be constrained. I think that's why people are eccentric - eccentricity is a weapon... and it's great!

Rock is all about writing your own script; it's all about pioneering.

No, because I don't want to hear what's hot and feel I have to copy it. I'll just make up my own thing.

A truly creative person rids him or herself of all self-imposed limitations.