Hidetaka Miyazaki Quotes

In my music, I'm never going to force anything to try to recreate a moment or something.

What's the point if you make something that's not you, and you're successful? You have to perform it the rest of your life.

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.

I think the key to making records generally is to make 'em for yourself, regardless of the climate in the business.

To be a true artist, I have to be true to who I am now and write that way.

When I write a book... it's the same essential approach to music as with books. It has to be something I want to hear or read. Hopefully the audience comes along, since that's the only way you can write righteously. I have to ask, 'What do I want to hear?' not 'What do people want to hear?'

Choose what you actually want to do rather than what you think will impress people on Facebook. Ironically, when you do this, something amazing happens; what you produce stands a better chance of getting recognition. Not just on Facebook, but in the real world.

No, I don't make my work in order to challenge or confuse other people's expectations - I only do what I find natural.

More than anything, I think the best thing you can do as an artist is just stay as true to yourself as possible and hope that your fan base will appreciate that.

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 can't think of anything worse, really, than to try to live up to someone else's expectations of what you should be. You don't make art by consensus.

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.

What eventually you find in comics is the only thing unique you can bring to a character who's been around for 80 years is yourself.

When I looked at people like Goya and Pina Bausch, the message I got was just do what you're passionate about. Don't think about what other people are going to say or how they're going to receive your work. Just be your work.

My goal is not to make popular things. My goal is to make the things I love as popular as I can make them.

If people like something you've done - or don't like it - this shouldn't determine what you write or how you write it. Those are two separate things entirely: your work and the world's response to it.

Don't try and make a movie for someone else. You have to make it for you and trust that you're not that unique. And that'll matter to other people as well.

You can't ever create defensively. You just have to create the next thing that really speaks to you.

This goes for our songwriting as well as our success as a band - the minute we stopped chasing what we thought people wanted to hear and started writing things that moved us, that's when people started paying attention.

I am not bothered with whether my characters are conventional or not. Because I am not in this for the designer labels and the autographs.

I consider myself first of all an artist. My work is about my creativity - why I create and not for whom.

That's the thing about creating. When you create, you create your own thing, whatever that is. It's always going to seep through in whatever you do.

A lot of artists are aspiring to fill an archetype as opposed to being themselves. Even if they can't quite put their finger on it, fans can tell.

We spent a couple of years trying to be what we thought people wanted us to be, what the press thought we should be, doing what the company wanted. Finally we just said 'Sod it. This is what we do best. We're best at making pop records that people enjoy and having fun and entertaining them.'

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.