Jane Wiedlin Quotes

I never think about what others are doing. I do a film for myself, not others.

I'm only worried about what I'm doing or how I present music. I just try to do things I want to listen to, and I think that's what everybody else is try doing, too.

I can only say that I myself wrote always as I wished, without a tremendous desire to find the latest thing possible.

You should do the sound that you want and not what others want.

The rule I stand by as an artist is definitely be yourself, and don't make music just for other people: make it for you first.

'Enlightened Rogues' we made like the earlier ones: whatever tune came up, whatever direction it went in, that's the way it went. That's what we'll always do. I think if we ever stop doin' that, we ought to quit.

I'm totally open to exploring different types of music. I just have to always remember to be true to who I am.

The way that I've always gone about making music, the rule of thumb, has just been to make what I love.

I think every artist would love to just please themselves musically all day long.

I think the moment you start trying to please a fan base is when you start going downhill. I'm going to always, always write about what I want, even if it doesn't necessarily cater to most of them.

In the past, I tried to be more of a typical session guitarist. I wasn't so concerned with impressing anybody.

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

I felt my music wasn't aiming at anybody. Everything I was doing was because it was a good song.

I wouldn't start writing songs like 'Name' all the time just because I thought that's what people wanted to hear. I'll write a song in the same vein because it's what I want to write.

I got my style. I got my own way of playing. I'm a musician. I'm self-taught.

Don't be afraid to play what you feel and what you think no matter what it is. If you play long enough, you start to move past your influences and find your own music.

I'm not trying to appeal to anybody. I just try to do my thing and make the best music I can make.

We only do what we think is good and what we're happy with. I do that in stand-up, I even do it with my children's books. I don't do market research, I don't have focus groups, I don't care. I don't care if it fails, honestly. I'd rather have something that's completely mine fail than something succeed that I'm not proud of.

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.'

Photographers should follow their own judgment, and not the fads and dictates of others.

A writer must refuse to allow himself to be transformed into an institution.

Good or bad, the one thing I can say about my art is, if I can quote Sinatra, I did it my way.

My thing is: stay creative. And just because somebody starts to pay you, that don't mean all your creativity goes to that, and you don't save none for yourself to be able to do other, bigger and better things and still follow your dreams even if you start off inside of a box.

I'm certainly not who people think I am. I always do whatever I want to do, and my films are personal to me.

In hip-hop, what you have is you have a lot of formulaic-type bands or rappers that come up. They saw something on the radio, and they want to mimic that formula. And that's just boring. I don't wanna record something just to make money; I want to record something to enjoy it and have fun because I'm a music lover.