Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes

Don't let anyone rob you of your imagination, your creativity, or your curiosity. It's your place in the world; it's your life. Go on and do all you can with it, and make it the life you want to live.

To be at acting school, it was kind of the first time you felt the freedom to be as much of yourself as you wanted. People weren't going to judge you.

I just do what feels right. I think the great thing about getting to do what I do is that you can try out being a different person without having to screw up your life to do it.

What I particularly liked was that, coming from California and not being involved in the New York scene, I developed my personal way, in my own way, at my own pace.

That's the very definition of freedom: to be allowed to develop our own creative potential to the fullest. But it doesn't have to be in the arts, obviously. In my case, I gravitated toward the arts.

I'm going to try to not let anyone put me in a box, and that certainly applies to the things I do outside of acting.

I don't like to be labeled, to be anything. I've made the mistake before myself of labeling my music, but it's counter-productive.

People tell you the world looks a certain way. Parents tell you how to think. Schools tell you how to think. TV. Religion. And then at a certain point, if you're lucky, you realize you can make up your own mind. Nobody sets the rules but you. You can design your own life.

The great thing about being a writer is that you are always recreating yourself.

Follow your inner moonlight; don't hide the madness.

Artists walk alone.

L.A. is so isolated and unhip in a way; it gives you room to figure out who you are and explore more personal stuff.

Doing acting opened up other creative outlets; it made me feel freer as an artist.

I've tried actively to define myself and redefine myself, and not be pigeonholed.

I'm crazy. I know I'm crazy 'cause Desmond Tutu told me, and he's very clever. He said, 'You must free yourself, be more of who you are. Be more crazy.' And I'm going to.

I just love the idea of going into a room and creating something by myself.

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.

I don't feel I have to be Jackson Browne. Still, I like to say something.

I'd been so heavily influenced by Em, but artists that don't grow out of that don't go anywhere. Ultimately, I came to understand that what Eminem stood for above all else was 'be yourself.'

I'm sort of stuck in adolescence in many ways, like most artists, and march to my own beat.

For me, working alone is being able to express, which is the artistic part.

I don't even really try to do something different. I just do what's authentic to me.

'Meenaxi' was a lesson in liberation. It taught me to be a free spirit and understand the pleasure of my work by being different people, just like Meenaxi is.

Even though I was 34 or 35 or something. I was like, “People can do that? Women can actually just say what they think?” It was an extraordinary experience to do that movie with her because every day was a lesson in how to just be yourself.

It was only until I started to be myself that the music started to flow and people started to listen. So, thank you guys...