Stefflon Don Quotes

Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self.

I don't do any art to please any people.

Write what you think is good, is the whole of the law.

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 greatest achievement is being able to write records that are real snapshots of what's going on in my life. I won't repeat myself for the sake of commerce, or to please other people.

I'm not an artist who has an agenda that's set by the work.

When I make movies, I don't ever go out there to please anyone other than myself. I never try to make a film for the masses. I just try to tell my story.

The most important thing for me as an artist is having an identity.

I can only say that I myself wrote always as I wished, without a tremendous desire to find the latest thing possible.

You hear it said time and time again by successful directors: You have to make a movie for yourself. Don't make it for anyone else.

I can only do music if I can do it the way I can do it.

You should do the sound that you want and not what others want.

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

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.

I try to please myself. I don't try to anticipate what people want to see.

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

I've never been one to sit back and go, 'I'd better do what the audience wants me to do, because I don't want to lose them.'

I, in the end, make art for myself.

I think this, I think basically I'm not interested in people following my work or making work like my work.

I just want to make something that is true to itself and that interests me; otherwise, how can I have the audacity to think it's going to interest anybody else?

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'm not really calculated enough or trained enough as a musician or songwriter to create a style in order to please people. Ultimately, I just have to do what I like to do.

I write the novels that are possible for me to write, not that ones I think will come across in a certain light.

It's strange: I've done so many things up until I did 'Obvious Child,' including writing children's books and making 'Marcel the Shell.' To me, the through-line is incredibly clear: it all comes from wanting to be connected to my own inner voice and not wanting to be on somebody else's agenda if that means that I can't be myself.

I want to be my own artist and reflect my creativity.. I don't want to be turned into a pop princess; that's not who I am.