Peter Hook Quotes

I had a lot more creative freedom back in the day.

I definitely want to continue working in independent films - and big budget stuff as well - but there's a freedom you have when you're not getting paid. It's easier to say no and there's no pressure to please the powers that be. Also I don't have to hear 'flirt and smile more.'

Money don't rule me, record companies don't rule me.

We've been working with the very best in the business. The studio really just let us alone to make the films.

I don't have to ask anyone's permission to do anything. It's nice not have to get decisions out of three, sometimes four people, which can be like pulling teeth. So the amount of control that I have over what I'm doing is better for me as a solo artist.

With acting I am being led by the script, other actors, the director, etc. But with songwriting I feel it is much more self reliant and allows me to be in the creative experience without being as dependent on others.

The way I look at a solo project is, I create what I want with whoever I want.

I've been so spoiled in the theater, writing plays where I can just do exactly what I want and nobody messes with 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.

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

Richard Donner is one of the few directors in Hollywood that can make whatever movie he wants exactly the way he wants it. No one will stop him.

Sometimes directors will hire you and say, 'Oh, we love your work.' And then they start to tell you how to do it. I say, 'Hey, man, back off. You hired me to do it. Let me do it.'

I'm making the music I want to make, in my own space, and it's just incredible to be able to continue to do that.

Directors tend to kind of let me do what I want to do.

When you play with Miles, you are on your own, and then it's you who decides what to contribute.

I've never been told to do anything. I've never been hurried along by anybody - the kind of so-called 'pressure' of record labels doesn't really exist in my case.

I've gone places where they've told me what I need to do, what I need to say, who I need to be, what moves I need to perform. And at Impact I get to just be me. I have creative control to be me and do what I want.

I am comfortable doing independent music; it gives me more freedom as an artiste.

The thing about doing concerts is that it's doing a live show. It's on my schedule. It's songs I want to sing. It's saying what I want to say. It's working with the people I want to work with. I don't have to worry about pleasing other people - I can do what I want, and people come along and go for the ride.

I no longer enjoy drawing people's pets. I just want to draw what I want to draw and have people not tell me what to draw.

I would design for anybody who gives me a free hand and who doesn't sit on my head.

Anyone can put anything out at any point and make anything by themselves.

When I work with other people, I have to try to make their vision happen. With my own, I don't think about it. The music has its own kind of agency.

In my first label Shrapnel Records I wasn't expected to do anything except the creative music that I wanted to do. I was my own boss, which is great.

The reason I decided to become a solo artist in the first place was because I always felt that the results that I got from working as a team where everyone had equal say... ended up with compromised, watered-down results.