Don McLean Quotes

I have a hard time doing anything someone else tells me to do! I've always been driven to follow my own path and not be pushed down another lane because some executive thought I could be more commercially successful or whatever.

I never do what anyone else is doing. I could walk away from music and become a farmer or do some crochet. The worst thing in life for me is to do something I'm not happy doing.

I try to please myself. I don't try to anticipate what people want to see.

I used to get in trouble with my old agent, because I've never been driven by fear or need or greed. I want my work to represent me as a person, so I can be quite fussy.

Acting is a whole boatload of fun, but I prefer to do it on my own terms.

I'm just living my life, and I'm not gonna live my life for other people.

Life is about making your own happiness - and living by your own rules.

Hey, if something is making you feel good, and it's not hurting anyone else, does it really matter if others believe?

Your life is yours and yours alone. Rise up and live it.

After I can be happy with knowing that I did what I wanted to do.

People should never allow themselves to be dictated to by media.

There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way.

I do read books. I suppose it's more or less the same thing, but at least I'm alone and I'm an individual. I can stop anytime I want, which I frequently do.

Everybody has their thing. I think you can always do what you like.

John Waters has certainly gotten to a place in his life where he doesn't do anything he doesn't want to do. He's always been that way, but at this point, he's greatly respected for it.

I am not happy, and the quest for happiness as a principal objective is not part of my world. Of course, ever since I can remember, I have done what I felt like doing.

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

I don't want to be an opinion anchor.

If something makes someone happy, then that's what they should do.

That's what I'm doing. I'm trying to follow what I want to do as my dream. How do I become independent from everybody else?

No one controlled Frank Sinatra or told him how to sing. No secret group of managers has been telling someone like Jay-Z what to do or how to look. And no one tells me what to do except me and the people who believe in me.

Who am I to say anybody can't do what they want to do and create their own destiny if they believe in something?

What I try to pass on in my work for everyone is that we can be who we want.

I do only what I like. If we do something we don't like, we will become someone else.

I chose my own path because that was the only way.