Josh Groban Quotes

I want to be my own artist and reflect my creativity.. I don't want to be turned into a pop princess; that's not who I am.

I feel like the point of being an artist is to have your own voice: to do it the way you would do it and not the way anyone else would do it. If you're a strong enough writer, then that voice is going to come out all the time, and I can't stop it from coming out, no matter what I do.

People often say, 'You don't go to fashion shows? What kind of photographer are you? What the hell is the wrong with you, man?' But that's what I need in order to be who I am.

The intent of Slayer's musical and lyrical content has always been selfish. We feel very strongly about the importance of staying true to ourselves.

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 am an actor who doesn't believe in carrying an 'image' in the industry. I don't want to get trapped in an image.

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've always done everything at my disposal to avoid labeling what I do, or to avoid being labeled myself.

I guess I created LeRoy Neiman. Nobody else told me how to do it. Well, I'm a believer in the theory that the artist is as important as his work.

It does not matter how badly you paint so long as you don't paint badly like other people.

I want to be remembered as somebody that tried to respect her integrity as an artist and as a person. And I don't want to be in any box. I don't want to be one thing.

I'm not trying to stay in the same place and I'm not trying to compete with what's currently in fashion. That would be dishonest. But, at the same time, I'm different and the music reflects that to some degree.

People must insist on the right to say no, to be alone, to stand out from the herd. Creative artists can say all this in their own way and in their own field, by hard, rigorous work.

Personally, I feel that in my own work I wanted to look programmed or impersonal but I don't really believe I am being impersonal when I do it. And I don't think you could do this.

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.'

I write my own songs. I made my own videos. I pick my producers. Nothing goes out without my permission. It's all authentic.

If you try to follow everyone else's mold, you'll probably fail at some point because God created us uniquely for a reason.

I don't want to look exactly the same in everything I do. And if I'm not identifiable, then that can be a blessing or a curse. But I'm fine with it. Because at the end of the day, I'm still working, and I'm enjoying what I do.

The most important thing for me as an artist is having an identity.

I don't want other people to decide who I am. I want to decide that for myself. I want to avoid becoming too styled and too 'done' and too generic. You see people as they go through their career, and they just become more and more like everyone else.

Somebody once told me I shouldn't try to change Hollywood. That isn't my point at all. I don't want Hollywood to change me.

Stand up for yourself and fight for your right to be the artist that you want to be. There's plenty of pressure from outside; people tell you how to dress and how to sing or what to sing, but I always felt like if I'm going to fail or succeed, I want to do it on my own terms.

I want to be free to be any version of me I feel like being. I don't want to be McDonald's that serves the same food every time.

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

You hear it said time and time again by successful directors: You have to make a movie for yourself. Don't make it for anyone else.