Nick Tosches Quotes

It's nice to really have the freedom to write what I want.

I write because it feels good, and I don't have a deadline, and I don't have people telling me what they want me to write. Maybe if I did, I wouldn't be very good at it.

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

Perfect freedom is reserved for the man who lives by his own work and in that work does what he wants to do.

I never realized how much I cherished having creative freedom.

The beautiful thing about being independent and having my own label is I can say whatever the hell I want.

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

The genius must have his freedom and his independence.

... We have quite a large area, and that makes it more fun for us - certainly more satisfying, because it doesn't restrict us to one particular idea or one particular style. The result, I think, is pretty interesting ... we don't expect to make a fortune at it or ever be popular or famous or worshipped or hit The Ed Sullivan Show or the circuses or the big top. As long as we can play, we'll play, regardless of what it's for, who it's for or anything. It's fun for us - that's the important thing.

I really (became) very independent. I was start(ed) to write one-woman shows and mak(e) films and to me I think I really felt like my choice (was) more important than any kind of career goal.

It was more freedom than I think most people get when they're starting out - or even when they're not starting out. He [John Cassavetes] did his thing and I did whatever I thought.

I see myself on top, doing what I love to do, and doing it the way I want to do it. No rules, just doing my own thing.

I'm looking for something that gives me a chance to stretch. Because I have my own work, and I can do anything I want in my own work - juggle, tap dance, anything I want.

We get to design what we want to see in the world rather than doing what other people think should be done.

I think that the very earliest influence was a horror of having to work in a bank or an office, a desire for a free and creative life.

Silence has many advantages…I write and draw in my notebook and I read anything I please.

As long as a man had the courage to reject what society told him to do, he could live life on his own terms. To what end? To be free. But free to what end? To read books, to write books, to think.

Weezer isn't stuck in roles, so we just do what we want to do, what makes us excited.

My parents were quite liberal with us, always encouraging us to be our own person and be creative.

I am the freest author in the world.

If I'm creating something for myself, then I want to have fun.

There's a lot of creative freedom. Acting is a whole boatload of fun, but I prefer to do it on my own terms.

Nobody owns me or my music.

And I found that when I built my own place and just shut the door, the creativity was endless.

To me, success was not having to have a boss and not having a day job. I've been living my own version of success since the early '90s when I first got signed. I haven't had a job since then.