Vince Gill Quotes

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.

I think it seems to be when I'm trusted, and someone just lets me have free rein - 'Do what you want, man' - that kind of confidence that directors instil in me always gets my best stuff out.

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.

I think every time you take on a new role, you're trying to help find that voice and you add your own bits and pieces along the way but with Noah [Baumbach] it's already done.

The studio's a collaborative environment. I just try to let people bring their own ideas to the songs and see what happens.

I'm really lucky that my record companies have been patient with me and leave me alone and give me the time to make it right in my mind.

I can't tell you how freeing it is to have my own label. For the first time in my career, I have total control.

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

I love getting into a studio with a bunch of friends. When the day's done, we've made something. We recognize that we're from different walks of the music industry, and there's no reason we shouldn't be collaborating. That's what I'm trying to create with thenewno2 - a sense of community.

The distance between the people who made the games and the people playing them wasn't that big. It was the spirit of independence. The programmers were a lot like you.

The deeper I get into my life as a musician, I'm discovering that it becomes less and less about other people, and more about what I want to do. And that's a good place to be.

I came away from 'Saturday Night Live' feeling very well represented. I felt, and I still feel like, they let me do so much stuff that I wanted to do. Stuff that I almost didn't even know what it was.

The ultimate thing is creating your own stuff and making projects for yourself. That's what Seth Rogen does. He's writing and producing a lot of the movies that he's the lead in.

I often say that in making dances I can make a world where I think things are done morally, done democratically, done honestly.

Doing 'All Good Things' really felt like I was acting for myself rather than anyone else. It gave me a freedom I'd never had before, or knew I had, to do whatever I want to, and to argue my opinions and not just feel like the cute girl on set or the girl in a boy's club. I figured out how I could be both. And it's been different ever since.

I flip the turntables. I write a lot from the male perspective, but as a female. That's how I live my life. I can roll with the boys.

I can't do anything I want to. I mean, I can't have my own TV show. I can't have my own movie. But within my little world, nobody tells me what to put on the albums.

There's no rule that says you have to make records constantly, like clockwork, to continue being who you are.

One of the things I'm adamant about as a bandleader is not micromanaging. I'm an advocate for the concept of allowing everyone to be fully vested in what they're doing, so everyone contributes whatever they're inspired to contribute.

I sometimes listen to music I made and find it to be something I wouldn't want to buy from a store, if there was a store. When it's like that, you have to make what you want to hear.

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

I categorically resist this idea that films are supposed to be autobiographical and the only stories you tell are about your own life.

It was important that I got my own voice out there in the world. I'd used it on other people's films, collaborated, and I thought, 'You know, I can do this myself.' That was more important than anything else.

When I'm making a song that's very Grimes, it just feels very insular and it feels weird to have someone else do something on it.

The artist is not responsible to any one. His social role is asocial... his only responsibility consists in an attitude to the work he does.