Tim Ferriss Quotes

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

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

I, in the end, make art for myself.

I don't write for a particular audience. I work as an artist, and I think the audience of one, which is the self, and I have to satisfy myself as an artist. So I always say that I write for the same people that Picasso painted for. I think he painted for himself.

I continue to write. It's just one of those things that I do. I'll have periods when I write and periods when I don't. But you don't want it to become a discipline really. If it becomes a discipline, it becomes a chore and that's no good.

I'm writing for the sake of writing music. Whether it gets heard or not isn't an issue for me. It keeps my own juices going and my mind active.

Play music that means something to you. Make it happen for yourself.

I do podcasts for the same reasons I do stand-up comedy. I love it, and I don't care if anybody else gets it.

You know when I think about what I'm doing - what I'm doing and the way I'm doing it is more important to me than any amount of money or anything like that because it's my artistic work.

Do the thing itself. Don’t pay much mind to critics or what anyone says about it. Just do it, in any form possible, and watch others doing it. Take it in viscerally, get it by osmosis. Don’t ever read your own reviews, certainly not the good ones.

The first audience that you have when writing a book is you.

I will always want to do whatever it is that my heart is in, and whether I get paid for it or not means nothing. It doesn't matter. I'll do it if it means something to me and I want to be a part of it.

I had very strong feelings, so the chance to make a film that deals in an imaginative way with stuff you care tremendously about is a real high. It's a really amazing thing to be able to do.

I don't write songs, play music and tour, really, for anyone else but myself. It's something that I have to do to stay alive.

I think as long as you're being creative and finding your own work interesting, that's all that matters.

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.

Even if nobody cared, I'm still gonna make music.

Even though what I do does enter the market, it doesn't interest me. I am exclusively concerned with the formal qualities of my work. It is about the need and the right to self-expression.

I didn't have any concept of Trainspotting being published. It was a selfish act. I did it for myself.

When you write, you're inside the project. You can't really think about the reception. It has to be worth it even if no one reads it.

I made music just for myself.

Even if nobody was listening to it, I'd still be making music.

It's hard when people are expecting things from you, and all you're trying to do is write songs that you like for yourself.

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

I'm just going to keep trying to write music for me because that's what got me here.