Rivers Cuomo Quotes

I have my own dance and production companies, and acting is my creative outlet. It's what I'm passionate about. I've actually created a lifestyle where I could act for free. I could get a job to pay the bills and act on the weekends to make me smile.

I've been able to become an entrepreneur and an independent artist.

I'm fortunate in having journalism as a sideline to pay the bills, and I essentially do it in order to take as long as I want with books.

I've been lucky enough to primarily work for myself over the years.

Any director or writer or artist has the right to do what they want to do - freedom of expression is something I celebrate.

I don't really have one style; I just choose what I like best each time.

I don't have kids, a mortgage, or a car. That has let me hold out for the jobs I want to do, and to sit in a cold room in the winter with fingerless gloves, writing.

The excitement of being a Task Rabbit is that you can create your own businesses and become an entrepreneur. We're creating jobs for people in this economy. Some of the Task Rabbits are cashing out at $5,000 per month.

During most of my freelancing, I made what I would have made in charge of the cafeteria at a pretty good junior-high school.

Maybe because I didn't have a huge film career right off the bat, I've been able to create something different, which is so important to me. That's myself, my idea of who I am.

Because there is so little room for expression otherwise, a lot of people love cinema because they find it a way of expressing themselves.

I like the idea of not having to do stuff for the money, and if I want to, I can pick indie projects for the rest of my life and be quite happy doing that.

As a musician I'm about expressing what's inside, and I think everyone has a song in them that they need to get out, whatever their gig is.

Country has been a wonderful outlet for me.

Take control of who you report to, what you do, what you create. Or start a business on the side. Deliver some value, any value, to anybody, to somebody, and watch that value compound into a career.

I'm proud I've been able to pay my rent doing what I love because I hate real jobs.

I would recommend, definitely, developing a 'day job' that you like - don't expect to make money writing!

I am a babe for a living.

I could live very quietly, do advertising to earn money.

There's no wrong way of doing art. It's an expression of the individual.

Working as a model liberated me from ever having to hold a day job. I transitioned from doing that to working full-time as an artist. If you're 19 and living cheap, being an artist model can sustain you.

Eventually I want to subsidize my income with other creative outlets that are going to not keep me tied to the road so much.

I've never had a day job. I've been very fortunate.

The lack of available, good work inspires a lot of people to be self-creating.

I had opportunities to stay on shows for long periods of time, and maybe financially that would have been good, but I feel good about trying to keep doing things that are a little bit different than what I've done.