Shawn Crahan Quotes

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.

No, because I don't want to hear what's hot and feel I have to copy it. I'll just make up my own thing.

I found it liberating of necessity to devise my own style and my own tactics and to look for a voice on the instrument because there weren't really any that impacted strongly on me.

I've always had a love for making things my own.

I think I became my own stylist by not knowing any better.

People say I've gone against Hollywood, but I've tried to be independent within Hollywood, tried to be my own person.

It's nice to create something you believe in. It's even nicer to dance to your own tunes sometimes.

I must create a system or be enslaved by another mans; I will not reason and compare: my business is to create.

My early experiences in animation taught me that following someone else is not a great idea.

You just get out there and be what you want to be. That's part of evolving and part of staying true to yourself - part of remaining alive in a real authentic, long-term sense creatively: not listening to what other people tell you to be.

If you look at somebody like Sam Bee, she got to create her own thing without any expectations that there was a show there. That was probably liberating for them.

I feel like I'm just trying to pave my own lane and just kind of make my own sound.

I wanna take what I'm doing and create something around it as opposed to trying to fit into someone else's world.

Following the West is not surrendering. Following the West, the best of the West, is following originality.

I've always wanted to be my own player from the start and do things a bit differently to what the others do. I want to play my own way.

We personally don't try to follow industry trends or themes. We just try and make something that we think would be cool and we want to make.

I just really like to find my own ideas.

The genius must have his freedom and his independence.

You're free to do anything you want with your company. It's more like art. You don't have to follow any norms. It's an expression of how you feel the world should be. When you make a company, that's your little place to make your own little utopia.

Follow the masters! But why should one follow them? The only reason they are masters is that they didn't follow anybody!

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

I knew naturally as a child not to forfeit my creativity to a world that's all laid out for me. I'll look at everything around me and vow to keep in mind that alla this is just someone's idea. It could have just as well been mine.

We get to design what we want to see in the world rather than doing what other people think should be done.

If you wanted to chart new territories and head off over the horizon, you had to make sure you weren't overly influenced by what others were doing ... so it didn't matter what other bands were doing ... we did what we were doing.

I get a kick out of being an outsider constantly. It allows me to be creative.