Iwan Rheon Quotes

I still enjoy doing music. I'm not going to stop doing it, and doing it the way that I feel it should be done.

My whole life I've played music for my own personal enjoyment and the idea of it becoming a machine or a business is just horrible.

For me, I don't feel all the pressure. I make music, and I release it because I like it myself and I want my friends to hear it from me.

That was the magical thing about the Seventies: artists ruled. Because films were relatively low-budget, nobody cared. We could just go off and work.

I just want to make the best music I can make.

I had a lot more creative freedom back in the day.

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

It's a great thing not trying to make music for a label but just for the love of music again.

I've had the great luxury in my career to be so successful as a songwriter that I didn't have the desperate need to have material to tour behind. It took a lot of pressure off me.

To be able to create an album where you are in complete control of your own work is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for an artist.

I can spend hours and hours and days and days in the studio changing the music, because I love that.

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

I always say I want creative control. A lot of people don't think about that. And that's what every artist should think of - being creative and not just a puppet.

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.

I am just creating the music I enjoy to make, and people seem to enjoy it.

When I started off as a choreographer, I had to do songs, which I may have wanted to do differently, but directors had their own inputs to give. But now, I take liberty to decide my own dance steps as well.

With Metro Station, there were too many people trying to control us. That's not the thing you should do with an artist, I think.

I can make any film I want to make.

I don't do 'political correctness,' whatever that means. I write the stories I want to write, featuring the characters I want to feature. I don't touch demographic bases to appease this group or that. I write what I want. Full stop.

Why can't rappers just say nice things? Like I wanna take your clothes off and hang them up in the closet real nice.

We don't play to be seen. I'm addicted to music, not audiences.

Everything runs smoothly. I'm never uncomfortable with anything I do. I never feel like I regret anything. I love music. All kinds of music. I'm a producer first. I feel like I can do anything and still be myself. You hear a song and you're like, "Juicy J is on this song, Juicy J is on that song," but it's still me at the end of the day.

I think it's the same thing for a country. We are lucky then that we can get some financing from the government, because it means when I get the money, when I get the grant to do the film, of course it's based on the script, but I have total artistic control and I can do personal stuff.

I always figure there are novels and short stories, and in those, I'm God. No one tells me what to do. I don't have to lose a page, or cut anything, it's just mine. Then there are other things where you're up against realities.

You're the artist - you make the music that you want to make.