Yandel Quotes

Nobody is really going to bring my vision to life like the way that I am. Before I was doing my own music videos, it was not really my vision.

My music has always been my solo project.

Very few artists are as independent as I am mentally, physically, spiritually and technically. I sit in my home studio and record things by myself. I don't need to get anybody's approval or validation.

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.

If I'm going to go out to be a solo artist, it's because I want to do something different without having to wait on someone else's schedule or hobbies or be limited by other people's prejudices. I'd be kind of stupid not to exercise that.

My job is to just express something that I want to express. And if I'm ahead or behind the curve, that's for others to decide.

I needed freedom to really express myself. That's really what Justified is about.

I like to choose my own way forward. I really do want to create something that I personally like a lot.

Acting is a whole boatload of fun, but I prefer to do it on my own terms.

To be honest, I'm selfish as an artist. I'm doing what I want to do and what I want to hear.

I make the music that I want to make and make the show that I want to make. If you like it, you come. If you don't like it, you don't have to.

I didn't come to Hollywood to be subservient to anyone else's vision.

I want the subject to be in control. Because they will give me something I couldn't possibly know about them.

I love music because you can create a world through your records. I have total control over what I do and what I wear. It's like my own world out of my imagination rather than someone giving me lines.

My father raised me to think independently and follow my own path in life.

I don't work to any commissions. I do what I want to do.

I do love being solo because I can have more of my own creative input to every aspect of my career.

Choosing what you want to do, and when to do it, is an act of creation.

Follow your own passion - not your parents', not your teachers' - yours.

Everybody makes his path differently.

I don't make films for other people; I make films for me.

Everybody has their thing. I think you can always do what you like.

I have to believe that I know what's best for me. For instance, I choose all my songs. I never record anything I don't want to record. No one tells me what concerts to do.

Doing my own album provided me the opportunity to say whatever I wanted.

It's a luxury to not have to just be performing with other people to have my music heard.