James Salter Quotes

That's a wonderful change that's taken place, and so most poetry today is published, if not directly by the person, certainly by the enterprise of the poet himself, working with his friends.

The great thing about YouTube is there are no gatekeepers. No one is waiting to tell you if you're good enough. It's just your audience.

Money don't rule me, record companies don't rule me.

It's good fun, making a solo album, because there's perhaps songs that wouldn't get used for the Stones or any other kind of outfit that I'm working with. It's just nice to be the boss.

It's really nice to be able to do what I'm doing without having to compromise with another musician.

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 can really write what I want. I can take time; I can do nothing for a year. That is paradise.

There's a great freedom in writing by yourself. You can write anything you want.

I don't ask other actors questions. I think that's too intrusive. I just watch. I don't want to be constricted to an idea of what acting is by anyone else. I want to take my own education.

Nobody has to give me permission to write.

I've gone places where they've told me what I need to do, what I need to say, who I need to be, what moves I need to perform. And at Impact I get to just be me. I have creative control to be me and do what I want.

From a creative perspective, we've been very fortunate in that doing it the 'VGHS' way gave us unlimited freedom. Whatever we wanted to do, however we wanted to do it, we had that.

It's a fascinating world to drop a finished product on the marketplace without the intercession of a publisher.

I had a lot more creative freedom back in the day.

I no longer enjoy drawing people's pets. I just want to draw what I want to draw and have people not tell me what to draw.

For a long time I was free. I didn't belong to any type of studio, or any company. I kept a sort of freedom and a light touch.

I don't feel like I've ever fit into a specific mold ever since I was very young. That's what so cool about YouTube is that you can do whatever you want.

Fox has always allowed us to be ourselves. They've never told us what we can say, what to say, what not to say.

I couldn't be an artist who was told what to do, what to be, what to sing.

I love the fact that I can make a podcast in my house and tens of thousands of people will hear it. I also like that it's gotten rid of a lot of gatekeepers.

I'm fascinated with what happens to the creative output when you isolate yourself from the approval and disapproval of the people around you.

As an author, I had spent years writing my stories on my own in a quiet room. My ideas traveled from my brain to my fingers, executed exactly as I saw fit, never veering from my own intent. TV simply doesn't work that way.

I don't need to wait for someone else to get a bright idea and say, 'I wanna work with this guy.' I can do my own thing and drop it right on the Web and bypass you and your bright idea.

There are no rules when I'm making stuff. That's why I'm glad I'm not signed. No one's telling me I got to drop this type of single or this video.

I'm glad that in this sport you can write your own stories, and you don't have to worry about what other people expect out of you.