T. J. Miller Quotes

Some people say I'm conscious, some say I'm a gangsta rapper - it's just me doing me. I'm stomping in my own lane. I'm doing what I do.

I feel like the point of being an artist is to have your own voice: to do it the way you would do it and not the way anyone else would do it. If you're a strong enough writer, then that voice is going to come out all the time, and I can't stop it from coming out, no matter what I do.

It does not matter how badly you paint so long as you don't paint badly like other people.

I can't really change the games I like to make, and I can't change my own particular aesthetic.

I learned to embrace my individuality, and if that meant writing a song on one chord over and over again, then that's what I do.

I realize that I'm not going to be everybody's cup of tea, and that's okay. I think that's the point of music.

People must insist on the right to say no, to be alone, to stand out from the herd. Creative artists can say all this in their own way and in their own field, by hard, rigorous work.

I'm not the average artist.

I'm drawn to things that aren't particularly popular at the time. I don't know why.

I live my life and play my music, and I don't really seek out other people's approval or accolades or things like that. I try to do what's true to me, and how it all comes out is fine.

When it came to my art, I went my own way and did not follow the trends.

The one thing I loved so much about making 'Pitch Perfect 2' - especially in comparison to a movie like 'Ten Thousand Saints' - is you can go and be yourself, and you just know that all your weirdness and craziness and imperfections are completely embraced and accepted.

I never tried to sing like anybody else, fortunately I didn't sound like anybody else. It just happened.

I'm more concerned with getting them to find and strengthen their original voice as writers rather than imposing my own subjective tastes, judgements or sensibility on the project.

What I love about Kanye is that he doesn't fit the mould either. He does what he feels.

The only way I was going to be funny was if I was myself, and either you liked it, or you didn't. Either you got on my train, or you didn't. Freeing myself of this idea that I had to fit a certain mold was when I was able to be my funniest.

I'm somebody who doesn't believe in conforming to maybe whatever is on the radio.

I know that whatever I put out, whether people think it's pop or noise or whatever, it's always going to be some kind of a freak or mutation. It's not going to be anything pure that a lot of people will relate to. And that's fine.

Music is so subjective and personal, I don't expect people to like everything I do. But that's life and you have to live unapologetically.

I don't wanna be like everybody else, I don't wanna rap like everybody else.

You can filter certain stuff - it depends what artist you are - but you're never going to be true to yourself if you're worried about what other people think.

We don't follow trends; I don't think we even set trends. We just do our own thing. We just do what we love. That's why Arch Enemy sounds like that.

I don't feel like I have to prove a point and say that I love the kind of music that I make.

Comedy has allowed me to be my 100-percent-true self, as opposed to other places, where I feel like that's been a hindrance. Whether it's music or poetry or hosting, people want you to be something else: they want you to be packaged in a certain way.

I'm not everyone's cup of tea, but that's the great part: I don't have to be.