Rex Orange County Quotes

Some stuff I don't even put out. I'll just be home, happy, creating something for myself, and then ball it up and throw it in the trash. It's less about trying to prove something or get on somebody's list or make a fan happy or make a hater mad or convert a non-believer. That's not the case for me anymore.

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

With independent music, I can do what I feel satisfied with, and not feel the pressure of what others expect me to deliver.

My greatest accomplishment is the freedom for doing what I want to do with my music...I love my freedom so I'm happy I am a free artist.

An artist should write for himself & not for an audience. If the audience likes it, great. If not, they can keep away.

I never think about what others are doing. I do a film for myself, not others.

Satisfying myself is the point in filmmaking, in my mind.

I think the key to making records generally is to make 'em for yourself, regardless of the climate in the business.

They say poets write mostly for themselves; if anyone else likes it, well and good, if not, it doesn't matter; certainly, not to me.

I only write music for myself, I don't try and appeal to anyone else.

You want to feel that you can do something creative that you love without being picked apart and mutilated for other people's pleasure.

I think the most important thing for an artist is to not worry about what anybody else thinks. You just have to do what comes from your heart and your being and put it out there-that's true in any of the arts.

I don't think of my music in terms of a career. I just want to get it out there and do it. I'm not manipulating my sound to be like anybody or trying to write to sound like anybody else.

I, in the end, make art for myself.

I'm never scared what people are gonna think about music that I make.

I think that was the whole idea behind doing the solo record was to be able to do musically whatever I wanted to do.

No, I don't make my work in order to challenge or confuse other people's expectations - I only do what I find natural.

I will not let my sales figures dictate what I say on the blog, because the blog is what I want to say.

I felt my music wasn't aiming at anybody. Everything I was doing was because it was a good song.

If people like something you've done - or don't like it - this shouldn't determine what you write or how you write it. Those are two separate things entirely: your work and the world's response to it.

I want to be as creative as I want. I don't ever want to have to compromise; I don't ever want anybody ever to tell me what to do, I don't ever want to argue with somebody because of my vision.

I'm very selfish. I make music that I love because I only live once, and I'm an artist. I don't try to revolt against anybody, and I don't try to please anybody. I feel very strongly that I if love it, someone else will love it - not everybody, though.

I don't do anything keeping Bollywood in mind.

I've always wanted to keep my own personal creative space, and do everything myself.

I just make music that I love. I'm kind of selfish when I make music. I'm like, 'Do I like this?'