Paulo Coelho Quotes

Some stuff I don't even put out. I'll just be home, happy, creating something for myself, and then ball it up and throw it in the trash. It's less about trying to prove something or get on somebody's list or make a fan happy or make a hater mad or convert a non-believer. That's not the case for me anymore.

I don't do commissions and I like the freedom to create what my heart or mind tells me to.

I didn't have any concept of Trainspotting being published. It was a selfish act. I did it for myself.

The rule I stand by as an artist is definitely be yourself, and don't make music just for other people: make it for you first.

The idea that the reader is important enough to me that I'd tailor my words to either please or offend them always seems amusingly alien to me.

I know it's a cliché to say I write for myself, but I write for myself.

At the end of the day, I'm an artist. I may make work and decide to do something political, but it will come out of an artist's position. It won't come out of society telling me I have to. If I do, it's because I choose, as an artist, to do it.

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

I feel that, as an actor, you're constantly working to become better, which I love, but with painting, I can fail on my own terms. There's a freedom in that, so that's why I love to paint.

I think once you write fiction, you put it out, and it can be interpreted in a variety of ways, some of which are going to be shocking to the writer.

I don't care about commercial success. I get to do what I love and communicate whatever I want.

It's fun when the writers take risk regardless of the reaction that it might get, and that's fun for an actor. You're able to not just play one thing all the time.

I felt my music wasn't aiming at anybody. Everything I was doing was because it was a good song.

When I write, I don't think about messages for my readers.

My audience has really become a very diverse group of people. It's not just 15-year-old girls. That's kind of what allows me to write from all the different places I want to write from.

I don't like getting stuck into someone's definition of what you can or can't do with a story.

I don't do any art to please any people.

The only place where any artist feels liberated is doing independent music. I have had great experience making music for The Dewarists and Coke Studio. No actor, producer or label is telling me what to do with my music. I'm the boss. It is my life, my expression.

I want to be as creative as I want. I don't ever want to have to compromise; I don't ever want anybody ever to tell me what to do, I don't ever want to argue with somebody because of my vision.

In the band Semi-Precious Weapons, I got to sing, wear, and say exactly what I wanted for ten years.

I just make music. If you don't like it, you don't need to buy or listen to it.

Make the videos that you want to watch. Don't think about who is going to be upset or offended.

I'm really not opposed to playing anything as long as it's a story that I want to tell.

I want to be my own artist and reflect my creativity.. I don't want to be turned into a pop princess; that's not who I am.

I've always wanted to keep my own personal creative space, and do everything myself.