Killer Mike Quotes

If I'm creating a free-form piece of art, I can make it look like anything I want, and nobody will say it's wrong.

I couldn't be an artist who was told what to do, what to be, what to sing.

I'm very selfish. I make music that I love because I only live once, and I'm an artist. I don't try to revolt against anybody, and I don't try to please anybody. I feel very strongly that I if love it, someone else will love it - not everybody, though.

I like artists to have some freedom.

Oneohtrix Point Never is total freedom to do what I think is right.

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 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 always write the pieces I want to write.

I'm not entangled in shaping my work according to other people's views of how I should have done it.

I don't want to use my creative energy on somebody else's user interface.

I paint what I like, when I like and where I like.

The freedom of every artist is essential.

I don't want to be held down by genres so much.

There is no must in art because art is free.

At this stage of my life, I've dedicated myself to playing what I want to play, how I want to play it for the rest of my time. Regardless of whether one might like it or one might not like it, this is where I am.

All artists are now free to express their own personality.

I've never been one to sit back and go, 'I'd better do what the audience wants me to do, because I don't want to lose them.'

Artists can do whatever they want!

There's a good many pictures I'd like to make; we'll see how many I'll be allowed to make.

My sin as a painter is that I just want to paint anything I want to paint - and repaint.

I think that was the whole idea behind doing the solo record was to be able to do musically whatever I wanted to do.

Irresponsibility is part of the pleasure of all art; it is the part the schools cannot recognize.

There's not a lot of art forms where you can control your presentation and your ideas.

I tend to approach characters not based on ethnicity but on some unique individual qualities, and I've set my whole life that way. I don't want any sort of limitations imposed on my work. If you truly want to be a creative person, you can't limit yourself.

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.