John Frusciante Quotes

I don't care what people do. I don't care how people remember my albums. I do them for my own reasons.

I know I'm never going to be a big pop star, because I'm not willing to conform.

For all the oddballs and misfits out there, eventually, if you just follow your path, you will reach somewhere no one else has. You are uniquely meant to do something that only you can do.

You know I am not born to tread in the beaten track the peculiar bent of my nature pushes me on.

I don't chase what everyone else is looking for. Being creative is all about you.

I feel like I've given up a lot of my fantasies. I just want to do things differently, and to a lot of people that's annoying. I like weird stuff. I always hoped if we had a big success it would be on our own terms.

I've always liked to go down a different path. Being a woman of color, I never followed a cookie cutter way.

People just try to put you in a box and I don't see myself in any particular box. I'm making my own box. There's no way I would be able to make the music I'm making without dancing.

I'm certainly not who people think I am. I always do whatever I want to do, and my films are personal to me.

I don't look at fashion the way other people do.

I was seen in earlier years by family members and people of authority as somebody wasting his time. I had trouble with the restrictions of conformity. It made me edgy.

I never think about what others are doing. I do a film for myself, not others.

I'm not trying to stay in the same place and I'm not trying to compete with what's currently in fashion. That would be dishonest. But, at the same time, I'm different and the music reflects that to some degree.

The thing for me is I never had this burning desire to do a solo record my whole life.

I only make movies that are interesting to me.

I'm American. I'm eclectic. I'm going to follow my musical passions. And if people don't like it, and it hurts my legacy, I'm not going to worry about that.

Don't try to write what other people are writing - write what is true to you.

I don't care what people say. My music's, my music.

I only write music for myself, I don't try and appeal to anyone else.

I have never wished to cater to the crowd; for what I know they do not approve, and what they approve I do not know.

Some people say I'm conscious, some say I'm a gangsta rapper - it's just me doing me. I'm stomping in my own lane. I'm doing what I do.

I didn't want to be like everybody else. Art was my religion.

I love when people have their own creative vision, when a person stands out and tries different things.

All art stems from a place of alienation. Intimate and alone. Most people are oppressed by the opinion of others, but I was not that way. I was afraid of the repercussions of not doing what I was told to do, what I was called to do by a creator.

I don't care about commercial success. I get to do what I love and communicate whatever I want.