Joyner Lucas Quotes

Some people don't understand that I - as an artist and a person - I want to make my own decisions and create the music that I personally like.

I want the subject to be in control. Because they will give me something I couldn't possibly know about them.

Whether it's writing a monologue or writing standup or writing a screenplay or writing a play, I think staying involved in the creation of your own work empowers you in a way, even if you don't ever do it. It gives you a sense of ownership and a sense of purpose, which I think as an actor is really important.

When I get to do whatever I want, I'm perfectly happy. I've found that the best scenario is that I just do what I do, and if somebody wants to be part of it, they should work as a conduit for what vision I have. They should help me complete the universe.

I just make the movies I want to see. I've always been that way.

I didn't come to Hollywood to be subservient to anyone else's vision.

I understand it's my role to realize people's dreams. I'm O.K. with that so long as my songs are my own. No one can take my songs away from me.

Very few artists are as independent as I am mentally, physically, spiritually and technically. I sit in my home studio and record things by myself. I don't need to get anybody's approval or validation.

To the extent that independent means you're willing to attempt to put your own ideas, personality, and commitment to the material on screen, then of course I hope I'm independent until the day I die.

If I'm going to go out to be a solo artist, it's because I want to do something different without having to wait on someone else's schedule or hobbies or be limited by other people's prejudices. I'd be kind of stupid not to exercise that.

Art need no longer be an account of past sensations. It can become the direct organization of more highly evolved sensations. It is a question of producing ourselves, not things that enslave us.

I have the freedom to take chances, to say no. I have the freedom to be who I really want to be, rather than have to conform to this or that just to stay alive.

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

We are all the writer-director-star-producer of our own life. We see life through our own eyes.

Today, charting your own course isn't just more necessary than ever before. It's also much easier - and much more fun.

I just want to keep doing what I feel.

Choosing what you want to do, and when to do it, is an act of creation.

I only make movies I want to go see.

I don't make films for other people; I make films for me.

The real story is that I am very free, that I've managed to be who I wanted to be without compromising.

For the first time I'm free to be myself.

I love people that willfully defy what you're supposed to be and create their own definition of their selves.

Doing my own album provided me the opportunity to say whatever I wanted.

My films, no one else will do.

When I work on my own stuff - and I think this is true for anybody - but when you work on something that you just completely own, you are trying to stay as true to your own storytelling voice as you can.