Paul Rand Quotes

I need to find a way of retaining creative control.

As an independent artist, you control the means of production, which is the ultimate form of empowerment.

I think all kids should have something they feels is theirs.

I can't tell you how freeing it is to have my own label. For the first time in my career, I have total control.

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.

Stand up for yourself and fight for your right to be the artist that you want to be. There's plenty of pressure from outside; people tell you how to dress and how to sing or what to sing, but I always felt like if I'm going to fail or succeed, I want to do it on my own terms.

I can make my own decisions, I can do the music I like. If I fail, it's me failing - you know.

I am very much my own person and my own artist.

I was born alone, I'm gonna die alone. I have my own identity. I'm my own person, and no two people are the same.

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

My music has always been my solo project.

You need to be your own individual.

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.

I don't control anything I create.

I am a private human.

I'm not interested so much in collaboration. You see that from the history of my albums.

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

It's important for me to be free and know I'm acting for myself. I do things because I want to, and that's important. You want to be your own person.

I own 100% of everything because I like to control what I do.

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

Our subjectivity is so completely our own.

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

I am definitely an individual.

What we want is to become masters in our own house.

I don't want to be owned by anyone.