Tommy Lee Quotes

There's no wrong way of doing art. It's an expression of the individual.

If you really don't care what an audience thinks, make a home movie and show it on your wall.

I'm dying to do a tiny indie and play something totally naturalistic without any sort of constraints on me. Something where I can shock everyone.

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

When no one knows you, and you're just trying to break into stuff, it's so good because you can write whatever you want and just say it; it's just between you and the audience. There's no process or worrying about anyone else interfering with what you're doing.

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

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.

I just don't feel limited by genre.

Acting gives you freedom to express your thoughts.

Music videos were an outlet. They were the jobs most easily available to me, but creatively, they're also so free form; there are no rules whatsoever.

We don't want to box ourselves within any type of genre, you know? Whatever feels good, if it moves us and we like it, we get on it and make it our own. That's what we do.

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 believe that a web series allows actors the freedom to express their views.

I love this freedom that has been given to me as an artist to express myself.

I think writing gives me creative freedom.

Creative process gives me the most freedom because I can do anything I want on a piece of blank media.

I don't like being locked in a cage on the creative scale. I need an outlet.

So now the floodgates are open to the delight of pure form, whatever its origin. Anything goes.

If you get the you-are-a-genius label, it can limit you. Because I'm not so scrutinized, I have more freedom. And that let's me write what I want.

After I had my daughter, I kind of got comfortable with motherhood and had time to focus on something else then I started "Sailing Souls" with Fisticuffs, who produced the majority of the mixtape. I just wanted to put out something, like it wasnt really for, you know exposure or to get a deal or really anything like that.

We have creative freedom because of budgets. Ever since I have been doing low budget movies, we've really had creative freedom.

I'm letting the songs breathe and change and become what they are without force.

So, what is creative freedom? We can make what we want, how we want. The only constraint is: not for any budget.

You know, I like to release music the way I feel it, as opposed to having a date.

To be different is a negative motive, and no creative thought or created thing grows out of a negative impulse. A negative impulse is always frustrating. And to be different means ‘not like this’ and ‘not like that.’ And the ‘not like’—that’s why postmodernism, with the prefix of ‘post,’ couldn’t work. No negative impulse can work, can produce any happy creation. Only a positive one.