Michael Dorn Quotes

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

I'd just like to inspire people to be themselves and do what they want and not conform to the rigid guidelines of the music or entertainment business.

When I sing, I try to make the song my own and sing it my way because, in my mind, I am not following any school of thought. I just make myself free.

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

I was determined to carve out a music of my own. I didn't want to copy anybody.

I tend not to have any references to anything. I just jump into the script in front of me. If you reference too much, you have no idea if the performances are right.

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

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

The minute you succumb to outside pressure, you cease to be creative.

I found it liberating of necessity to devise my own style and my own tactics and to look for a voice on the instrument because there weren't really any that impacted strongly on me.

I learned early in my writing career that if I try to tailor a song for someone else, I'm usually off base. They're usually looking for something from you with your character.

I don't think I would be a good actor! People enjoyed 'Dancing With the Stars' because I was myself, and every time they told me to say something, I would say my own words, so I don't think I could follow a script well!

I love to act and put on a show, but you're playing a character all the time. For music, it's really just me being myself.

I just do whatever I do, and put it out there without tryin' to cater to anybody. If you like it, you like it.

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.

Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self.

It's nice to create something you believe in. It's even nicer to dance to your own tunes sometimes.

I have many musical inspirations, but I would really love to just be me. My very own artist.

My sensibility steers me toward writers who are out on their own.

All the power to them but I'm not interested in making yet another show that looks like some other show.

Don't be afraid to take liberties with this music. Try and put some of yourself into it.

The audience may not have felt it was right, and the author may have felt a little upset, but every part I've played I've twisted around in my mind until I've made it into something of my own. Looking back over it, I didn't deliberately sit down and plan like that, but it does read like it.

The audience changes every night. You're the same person. You have to speak your mind and do the stuff that you think is funny and makes you laugh.

I just write songs from the heart, and you never know who'll like the songs. I try to make sure that I don't allow anybody's expectation to weigh on me. I have my own expectation of life. I believe in letting people be free.

When you make stuff from the 'you' point of view, you really can't go wrong.