Justin Timberlake Quotes

I don't like to box myself in when I'm composing.

That's what I feel like my music represents - having no limits or restrictions.

I sort of look at acting like that: if you have no confines, you have everywhere to go.

There's never any pressure on the music having to be something.

I never have a genre in mind when I'm making music because I just like to be free. I feel that placing a genre on your music is limiting yourself.

In every aspect of society, including business and anywhere that creativity can be used, we can be - or we used to be, anyway - the most innovative country, because we weren't restricted by artificial limitations. We are made to be wild, free, and creative, and this clearly was a symbol of that kind of energy in America.

Artwork is not like a commercial business; there is no such thing as a schedule for art. You can't hurry art.

I see myself as someone who makes things. Definitions have never done anything but constrain.

There is no privilege in restriction. In other words, I disagree with people who say restriction makes you more creative. I think that's a misleading slogan. I might have been more creative without them than with them.

To me, songs come of their own volition - and with an open-ended philosophy.

I love the idea of stepping out of the band situation into a solo world with no boundaries, no expectations, where nothing is out of bounds.

A truly creative person rids him or herself of all self-imposed limitations.

That was the appealing thing about comics: There literally is no budget in comics. You're only limited by your imagination.

My art side is free and there are no strings attached.

My influences change all the time; they have to remain current, because they're the things that capture your imagination and make you want to go into the studio.

I like that the art world isn't regulated.

The secret sauce of the business that I can offer is my creativity, and in order to keep my creativity alive and fresh, I have to pretend that no one is watching the show, that there are no audiences, there are no ratings; I'm just telling a story.

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 really need to sing and sing and sing and not worry about writing. Just by singing for pleasure, your voice takes you to what it wants to sing. And that is how the best stuff kind of emerges.

Even if you're not releasing songs, the act of creativity is important. That's the part I love, when you're in the moment. The rest of it I'm not particularly interested in at all.

When I'm making a song, I try not to think about audience or genres. It's free-flowing. Natural.

We wanted to write songs that we really like that incorporate everything. It seems a lot of bands want to stick with one thing. We didn't want to be scared to do anything that we wanted to do. We didn't want anything to hold us back. We wanted no boundaries.

... everyone's free to embark on either a great clipper or a little fishing boat. An artist is an explorer who oughtn't to shrink from anything: it doesn't matter whether he goes to the left or the right -- his goal sanctifies all.

At 10 o'clock in the morning I'd go right in the studio. It feels good to be there in the morning before the day starts to mess with you - I don't mean in a negative way, but before I'd speak to a lot of people or get into anything, I'd go in there and just see what I felt. A lot happens in the morning for me in the studio.

The thing that's so exciting when you're making a film is that it can be anything and there are no limitations on it.