Ajay Naidu Quotes

Who said that artists should sell their soul, expose everything about themselves?

Anytime you work with materials that are deep parts of yourself, you feel revulsion at showing things about yourself that you don't want people to know.

When you make an album, you have to decide how much you want to give away; you have to decide how much you want to open up. Because the more you open up the more rewarding it can be but the more dangerous it can be. If you really open up and it gets panned it's really painful.

I learned a lesson which I didn't heed: Don't put yourself in your movies. It's too much.

What you're really after when you see a film or listen to a song is a singular vision, and I'm not sure how much of that you really get in Hollywood.

I'm more than a songwriter. I'm a creative person. Some people you just always see. I won't allow you to see me unless it makes sense. There's a reason to see me.

The emotional stakes a memoirist bets with could not be higher, and it's physically enervating. I nap on a daily basis like a cross-country trucker.

It's a surprisingly sacrificial job being an actor.

The only living works are those which have drained much of the author's own life into them.

I don't want to be doing movies that I don't want to do. They take so much out of you.

I don't think there's any artist of any value who doesn't doubt what they're doing.

If I've done my work well, I vanish completely from the scene. I believe it is invasive of the work when you know too much about the writer.

That dichotomy between the public consumption of the work and my intent and practice in making it is an uneasy one for me, on occasion.

When the uncreative tell the creative what to do, it stops being art.

I don't like to discuss my work in a lot of detail; I'm afraid of dissecting it in a way that is not good for me.

I avoid watching other people's versions of films or plays that I work on.

I'd love more production houses to encourage artists to create what they want and not just churn things out.

As an artist, I struggle with how much of myself to give to the people. How much I want my personal business to be judged.

Stealing Chanel' was very different for me as an artist. I had to embrace and expose my vulnerabilities, instead of manifesting a character.

I can only control what I can, which is what I'm able to do as an artist.

It's really intense to write and make a movie and produce it and have it come out in the world. It's a very vulnerable thing.

People don't realize what they have when they own a picture by me. Each picture is a phial with my blood. That is what has gone into it.

When I made YouTube videos, I am the one who's uploading it, I'm the one who's editing it, so I'm very in control of what I'm sharing and not sharing. Whereas in music, it's a lot more of pouring my heart out and kind of just putting it out there for the best.

I don't like talking about my work at all. I find it very difficult. I never know what to say. It's too close to me, and there's so many things happening unconsciously while I'm working that I'm not aware of, and people will point these things out to me, and I'll say, "That's interesting." But I don't know what to make of it.

Stripping toughened my hide, but exposing myself as a writer has been a lot more brutal.