Thomas F. Wilson Quotes

I want to pave my own path artistically.

I don't necessarily love all the collaborations that I've done; the more I work with other people, the more I realize that I want to work with myself.

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'm a little bit more proud of Solange. She chose to do it her way. Because in the beginning, we wanted to mold her into this pop star, and that is not who she is. And we were wrong. I was wrong, the record labels were wrong... She wanted to do it her own way, and she did.

You gotta do things your own way. You have to find your own path. You have to take what appeals to you and leave all the rest.

Be neither a conformist or a rebel, for they are really the same thing. Find your own path, and stay on it.

To go wrong in one's own way is better than to go right in someone else's.

A man must walk only his own path...Never another's or his feet will grow tired and sore. And he will feel lost even when he arrives.

To the extent that independent means you're willing to attempt to put your own ideas, personality, and commitment to the material on screen, then of course I hope I'm independent until the day I die.

Ultimately, you have to pursue your own path, not someone's idea of the right path. You need to stay on your path.

I'm spreading my wings at last.

Follow your own star!

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.'

Hopefully my fan base doesn't lock me into 'Twilight,' you lose yourself. You should do things for you, and I have been really lucky to have things that really rock me and really move me falling into my lap.

Living creatively is really important to maintain throughout your life. And living creatively doesn't mean only artistic creativity, although that's part of it. It means being yourself, not just complying with the wishes of other people.

I do love being solo because I can have more of my own creative input to every aspect of my career.

I just know that it's smart for my career to carve my own path and do my own thing.

I leave the genre labeling to other people. I really do. If I were to think too hard about it, that would stifle you creatively. If you think too hard about who other people want you to be as an artist, it stops you from being who you want to be as an artist.

If you want to sing out, sing out, and if you want to be free, be free, cause there's a million ways to be, you know that there are.

When you finish a series like 'Ugly Betty,' there are so many voices around you telling you what you should be doing next and what would be good for your future, sometimes you can't hear yourself. I've gotten pretty good at tuning everyone else out. Now it's just me; what pleases me creatively.

I just don't like to do a lot of the normal things expected of other artists. I'm not trying to be difficult; I'm just trying to stick with what it is I want to do.

I've lost many of my best friends... I'm going to satisfy myself now, not the critics, not even my friends.

Nothing goes further toward a man's liberation than the act of surviving his need for character.

Success gave me confidence as an artist. And now I'm able to do what I want without anybody thinking it's dumb.

I've always rooted on kids that do what they want to do and are being who they want to be.