Prince Quotes

NBC has not once given me a music note. I get the freedom to do what I want, and that's kind of amazing.

The beautiful thing about being independent and having my own label is I can say whatever the hell I want.

I don't have to ask anyone's permission to do anything. It's nice not have to get decisions out of three, sometimes four people, which can be like pulling teeth. So the amount of control that I have over what I'm doing is better for me as a solo artist.

Nobody owns me or my music.

I've been so spoiled in the theater, writing plays where I can just do exactly what I want and nobody messes with me.

My ethos is musical freedom: to create whatever I want.

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

Musically, I have little ambition. The only real ambition I have is to make music and do music whenever I feel like it, without any real ambition or planning.

I have complete creative freedom. If I want to put a song on the album, there's no one stopping me.

The best technology is when you are free to do what you want.

I get to do all the styles of music that I love. There's no boundaries; there's nobody holding on to me saying I can't do that.

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.

One of the great things about working for Netflix is that they haven't placed any restrictions on content or artistically.

I have taken every amount of creative liberty and freedom that I can get and I've actually managed to push it. I would say being the champion gives me that freedom because you really get a little more carte blanche.

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

I have real TV studios. If I have an idea, I can go shoot it. I can experiment. If I choose to air it or not, it's at my discretion. I don't have to do it to somebody else's time frame.

It feels very, very good to make a film freely, to work without having to wait years for script approval, without looking over your shoulder.

We love having the freedom that we have with the web; I mean, we don't have to answer to anybody. We have complete creative control; we don't have to worry about FCC regulations.

I believe in creative control. No matter what anyone makes, they should have control over it.

I don't want to be owned by a corporation and obliged to make a certain type of album. I want to be free.

The way I look at a solo project is, I create what I want with whoever I want.

I've never let producers tell me what to do. Even when I was making television, I always did what I wanted to do, and if I couldn't, I didn't do it. It was a freedom that, these days, young directors starting out don't have.

I don't feel restricted by the language: I feel more free.

In climbing, sponsors typically support an athlete but provide very little direction, giving the climber free rein to follow his or her passion toward whatever is inspiring. It's a wonderful freedom, in many ways similar to that of an artist who simply lives his life and creates whatever moves him.

Cable had a latitude to move which created less censorship and bestowed upon the artists, the writers and the creators, more liberty to create their shows.