Nadine Coyle Quotes

Certainly in cartooning I'm given huge free rein at the moment.

I've never let producers tell me what to do. Even when I was making television, I always did what I wanted to do, and if I couldn't, I didn't do it. It was a freedom that, these days, young directors starting out don't have.

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

I don't care about commercial success. I get to do what I love and communicate whatever I want.

Panic! at the Disco, for me, has been an outlet to do whatever. I never felt like there were any rules. It was always carte blanche. I could do whatever I wanted. There were no rules set yet for the band. It just felt right.

In the band Semi-Precious Weapons, I got to sing, wear, and say exactly what I wanted for ten years.

It's my only freedom, music, and I'm not going to give it up to anyone else.

Even myself, I believe that as an artist I should pursue more independent activities. If more artists believe in this and are active about it, they will be able to accomplish more on their own, without the influence of entertainment labels.

I get to do my own thing with music. I get to write the songs and sing the songs. As an actor, you have to do what someone else tells you to do and say someone else's words. And you're limited by the way you look and music is just more rewarding creatively for me.

In my first label Shrapnel Records I wasn't expected to do anything except the creative music that I wanted to do. I was my own boss, which is great.

When you make music on your own for so long, you get used to just doing whatever you want.

I can make any film I want to make.

When I want to go be Chickenfoot, I go out and I'm the artist. It's all musical.

Sometimes I don't want to be in the confines of what a band seems to provide.

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.

Weezer isn't stuck in roles, so we just do what we want to do, what makes us excited.

Creative freedom is an imperative for me, but it doesn't really exist in a Hollywood game.

It's just always been a hobby of ours to make music that makes us happy and excites us when we make it.

The way I look at a solo project is, I create what I want with whoever I want.

Nobody owns me or my music.

I've been so spoiled in the theater, writing plays where I can just do exactly what I want and nobody messes with me.

The ultimate thing is creating your own stuff and making projects for yourself. That's what Seth Rogen does. He's writing and producing a lot of the movies that he's the lead in.

That's my actual payment, the fact that I can actually make something that I actually enjoy and put on repeat, and it's not related to anything else or anyone else's thoughts and ideas, it all came from me; I just love that aspect of it.

My art side is free and there are no strings attached.

If people would like to come to my concerts I'd love them to come. And if they like the music that I make, I love that too. But I do not make music for other people. I make it to please myself.