John Tiffany Quotes

I'm not thinking about what needs to be on the radio. I'm not thinking about anything other than - I'm just going to let this music come out of me and not have any sort of preconceived notion of what I should do. I'm just going to do it.

With 'Friday Night Lights,' we were encouraged to make it our own and improvise as much as we wanted.

I want to be free to be any version of me I feel like being. I don't want to be McDonald's that serves the same food every time.

Jazz does what it wants to, and so does The Wu.

Even when I was in school shows, in elementary school doing plays, I'd always go off book and start improvising.

People are at their best when they can be natural. And that's the hardest thing as a photographer.

I've always done everything at my disposal to avoid labeling what I do, or to avoid being labeled myself.

People relate to the spirit of the band, which is to live your way and succeed on your own terms. There's no hypocrisy in being successful and still railing against conformity.

I say whatever I think and whatever is on my mind, and I just hope that it comes out good. I just try to have a lot of fun.

Commitment and creativity cannot be captured and handcuffed. Inspiration cannot be jailed. The heart cannot be contained.

There's that great thing about acting - you're wearing your heart on your sleeve, and you're speaking off the cuff. You know, you're fearless about it, and - and it's great. And I love it.

I want a part where I can use my own hair, my own voice, and maybe even be literate.

If there's a song where there's a possibility of guitar stuff that would be fun to listen to, go for it. Don't worry about what anybody thinks.

The most daring thing is to be yourself and to do exactly what you want to do at that point in time and not to be worried with what other people are doing or what's popular.

I want to live my life, not record it.

You can wear whatever, be whatever, do whatever you want.

It's important to me that I should be free to express myself.

To live life well is to express life poorly; if one expresses life too well, one is living it no longer.

If you want to sing out, sing out, and if you want to be free, be free, cause there's a million ways to be, you know that there are.

There are those who dance to the rhythm that is played to them, those who only dance to their own rhythm, and those who don't dance at all.

I ad lib. I've gotta bring my own into it.

More of me comes out when I improvise.

The voice over is a hat you put on right now as opposed to worrying about going through wardrobe, and having to look a certain way. You just got to let your voice do the talking for you.

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

When I was performing on streets, there was no pressure. People accepted me. They loved me without knowing me.