Cai Guo-Qiang Quotes

I'm a different person. I don't want to be titled as Courtney Love and Kurt Cobain's daughter. I want to be thought of as Frances Cobain.

Stand up for yourself and fight for your right to be the artist that you want to be. There's plenty of pressure from outside; people tell you how to dress and how to sing or what to sing, but I always felt like if I'm going to fail or succeed, I want to do it on my own terms.

I have this original style that I want to show to the world. I don't want to be kind of this beat down, bruise-you-up kind of dude and have Karl Anderson cut all my promos for me. I don't want to have to do that.

You know, you always want to just do your own thing - I mean some people want to be exactly like their parents - Ibut I wanted to do my own thing and I ended up doing a kind of mix of my mom and dad.

I love my father, but I have worked to develop a separate and distinct identity in different projects I have worked on.

I love to be individual, to step beyond gender.

I didn't want people to decide what I was going to wear and what I was going to look like and how I should behave.

I do not want to work to correspond to an image.

I'm my own person. You can't generalise about people.

I've had a lot of voices tell me what I should be making. Personally, I would much rather live and die by my own hand. If my stuff sucks, then at least I made it suck. I didn't allow some person, some old dude in a suit, to make it suck for me.

I'm not going to put myself in a box.

I'm a different person who's not my father or my mother. I want to be treated differently from them. I am myself, Twinkle Khanna. I am proud of being the daughter of such illustrious parents, but I would not like to be compared with them time and again.

I've got to do it my way. I can't compromise and be someone else.

I don't like being told what to do, and I don't need to be told what my record should sound like.

I figured out that it was important for me to have my identity, just live independently and like being myself, musically.

I am not defined to be in any mould and I can be whatever I want to be.

We must never lose our individuality.

I think, a lot of times, people don't want to do what their parents do because they want to be their own person.

I'm my own writer. My material means I'm entirely separate.

I want to describe myself, not be described by others.

I wanted to retain my individuality. I was afraid of being hampered by studio policies. I knew if someone else got control, I would be restrained.

I was born alone, I'm gonna die alone. I have my own identity. I'm my own person, and no two people are the same.

I'm certainly not who people think I am. I always do whatever I want to do, and my films are personal to me.

There are two metaphors for Mario the person and not Mario the footballer. I think I am a man, but I don't believe I need to say it. But I could also be Peter Pan because I do things my own way and I am free. So, yes, maybe I should say that I am Peter Pan - although I am much more of a man.

I wasn't interested in going to the school dances. I wasn't interested in going to the football games. What I wanted was to be in my room painting my walls and doing weird stuff. That's what I wanted and I got to do what I wanted, so that, to me, is my high school experience.