Sean Durkin Quotes

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

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

I don't want people to just hand me music and be like, 'Here, you sound good on this. Sing it.' I want to be able to say, 'This is me.'

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

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.

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.

I want to make music that I like; not something that I have to make because I think it's going to sell.

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

Sometimes, there's a preconceived notion of how a scene or how a work should be delivered. And I see young performers sometimes try and deliver that, and it's not really true to their voice or who they are.

I'm not entangled in shaping my work according to other people's views of how I should have done it.

I don't want ever to be guilty of what my critics claim: doing formula without original elements.

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

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.

If you start to just aim for what the audience wants to hear, you're already hamstrung because you don't have any freedom.

I've never been one to sit back and go, 'I'd better do what the audience wants me to do, because I don't want to lose them.'

I know that after my letter there will be undoubtedly an 'opinion' about me, but I am not afraid of it. I openly say what I think. Talent, of which we are proud, must not be submitted to the assaults of the past.

If you're trying to please everyone, then you're not going to make anything that is honestly yours, I don't think, in the long run.

I've never... when I was having songs on the airwaves, and that sort of thing, I never felt a sense of pressure anywhere except from myself, to do things the way I wanted to do them; to feel authentic; to feel like I was presenting my true self to the world.

Just trying to be different - when I hear something - I don't like to go trampling on other people's sounds.

What I've learned from different designers is that it's key to be true to who you are and your vision. That's always been my line of thinking. Working through the whole design process, I don't want to create something I wouldn't be proud to wear.

You know, we have our own audience, and it's not like - they just know we're not going to do certain things.

Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self.

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

I don't worry about what everyone wants to see. I make movies that please a writer, director and myself. I always think there are enough people smart as me and sensitive as me.