Kellan Lutz Quotes

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

I've learnt that I've had the best results from just trying to be me, trying to make a movie or TV show I want to see or write a script I want to read, and that's really all I can offer - being authentic.

It is so important to be really true to yourself in design, and I am.

As a director, I design every movie to be true to itself, and damn it if they like it, and damn it if they don't.

In expressing so completely his own type, Mr. Yeats presents us with the case for integrity. If we can express eventually our own scholastic mentality in verse, I believe that our art will lead us not towards, but away from, English art.

I can only do music if I can do it the way I can do it.

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.

I'm totally open to exploring different types of music. I just have to always remember to be true to who I am.

I feel like the point of being an artist is to have your own voice: to do it the way you would do it and not the way anyone else would do it. If you're a strong enough writer, then that voice is going to come out all the time, and I can't stop it from coming out, no matter what I do.

Write what you think is good, is the whole of the law.

I don't rap like nobody, I don't try to sound like nobody.

If I'm going to sing like someone else, then I don't need to sing at all.

I learned early in my writing career that if I try to tailor a song for someone else, I'm usually off base. They're usually looking for something from you with your character.

I would say trust your own judgment and develop your own style that is true in your heart and don't be deterred from that. Just develop that something that's unique to you that you feel you can give. Be true to yourself, trust your own judgment; that's all.

You have to be who you are when you do music.

I think the most important thing for an artist is to stay true to who you are. I want to stay as authentic as possible, as that's how we're going with our team.

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 wanted to come through with my own voice and, hopefully, have it affect people. I want people to know that I'm not an Elvis impersonator.

When I was shopping around trying to get signed, I made it a point to say, 'This is who I am.' I dress the way I normally dress, and I just wanted to find a label that would accept me for that.

If you're a painter, you don't go, 'Abstract's really selling, so that's what I'm going to do.' If you're really truly an artist, you have to think what you're meant to paint.

I think that as long as you stay true to you when you're putting out music, somebody's going to like it.

Just stick to what you feel you sing best at, no matter what it is.

Your own material is your identity, and I think that's what you need to stick to.

For me, I'm not trying to be the flavor for everybody. But I'm just proud when people I respect or people that I want to be my fans are my fans.

That's the most important part of all the music I produce: making sure the artist is bringing themselves out in the music.