Brit Morin 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.

My concepts are never bright ideas; they're never notions I think will sell or be trendy or attract new fans. I don't think that way. All I can do is sing from my life.

I remember making 'Mr. Show,' thinking, 'Man this stuff is really funny to me.' I don't know if anyone else will love it, but I know I'm going to still watch it in 15 years if I'm still alive and laugh really hard. Even though we had very high standards, we were trying to excite and please ourselves.

Always put out content that you are 100% happy with.

I knew what I didn't want, and I knew whatever it was going to be it had to be believable and it had to come from me and I had to drive it. The way I write is very honest and when I think of the music that I listened to growing up, I loved it because I believed it.

Write only if you cannot live without writing. Write only what you alone can write.

Make sure that everything you produce and create is organic to you.

I think it's really important to make things your own in your voice. I started when I was 23, and in the beginning of my career, there was this expectation of a young designer being edgier, cooler, more downtown. But I was never that person.

No matter what I put out, no matter what genre - because I feel like I'm going to experiment with everything - I hope people will see that it's true to me, that it's honest, and nobody ever thinks that I'm inauthentic.

A man who writes well writes not as others write, but as he himself writes; it is often in speaking badly that he speaks well.

If I was singing like somebody else, then it was almost like I was expressing myself like somebody else. So it was always a very original thing for me. It's my voice, it's my diary, it's the way I connect with people.

The worst thing you can do is say to yourself, "I want to be just like somebody else." You have to absorb knowledge from someone else, but ultimately you have to find your own voice.

Everybody talks about finding your voice. Do your homework and your voice will find you.

Of course, I write. I have stories to tell. But I don't want to do superficial stuff any more.

The most important thing I can say is to make music that moves you. Don't try and chase what's on the radio or what you think people want to hear.

Don't try and make a movie for someone else. You have to make it for you and trust that you're not that unique. And that'll matter to other people as well.

Covers are always so fun to do, but there's nothing like telling your own story.

I just always make honest music. I just always kinda do what I wanna do.

We started making content because we wanted to see it, and so our content ended up being genuine.

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

The biggest thing is, when I was coming up, the thing that made you wonderful was your uniqueness. People celebrated that.

You're creating ' it comes from the heart, the spirit, the soul. You're not manufacturing somebody else's plan, somebody else's blueprint, somebody else's idea that's not yours. So when you're creating, that's the beauty side of art, you know? It comes from within you.

In terms of my actual acting, I don't really like to to copy anyone or replicate anything that I've seen.

I think the key for any kind of artist - and this transcends music - is a certain degree of authenticity and sincerity.

I love creating things that come from my gut and my soul.