Dream is not that which you see while sleeping it is something that does not let you sleep.
We are stubborn on vision. We are flexible on details.
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 put out a song that I wasn't completely proud of and that I didn't love. In that sense, I've never felt like I sold out in any way.
I don't care about commercial success. I get to do what I love and communicate whatever I want.
I don't usually collab with producers, because I don't need to. I never have, because I don't want to break my style of how I do things.
Maybe it goes away, but this is the way I've chosen to live: I want to go down or rise up as an artist. I don't want to get swept up in lipstick or whatever the hell.
Independent films have a certain freedom about them - there isn't so much at stake in terms of money. I think they're more interesting because they're not watered down to appeal to the masses. They tend to have a unique voice.
No one's telling Tarantino what to do. You might like it or you might not like it, but the reality is he's getting his own vision out there.
If you're convinced as an artist of what you're doing, the only move is to, no matter what people say or what management says or your best friends say or people on Facebook, do what you do, and people will find their way to it.
My biggest obstacle is trying to keep the music pure to what I want to release. I don't want any corporate suit telling me what story to tell.
I'm willing to be regarded as a tyrant to keep my vision intact.
We don't follow trends; I don't think we even set trends. We just do our own thing. We just do what we love. That's why Arch Enemy sounds like that.
I really believe in not compromising your art. I feel like I've never compromised my art.
Solo, you don't have compromise. It gets back to what's great when you're a musician.
I know I'm not gonna please everybody when I make a record. I don't let that affect any of my decisions.
If we just let our vision of the world go forth, and we embrace it entirely, and we don't try to piece together clever diplomacy but just wage a total war, our children will sing great songs about us years from now.
Ever since I began to compose, I have remained true to my starting principle: not to write a page because no matter what public, or what pretty girl wanted it to be thus or thus; but to write solely as I myself thought best, and as it gave me pleasure.
You can't put my talents in a box because my talents have put me in a mansion, and I'll be damned if anybody in the world can tell me what I can or cannot do, because they're scared to do it themselves.
First of all, I never make a movie for awards consideration.
Pan me, don't give me the part, publish everybody's book but this one and I will still make it!
Some people say I'm conscious, some say I'm a gangsta rapper - it's just me doing me. I'm stomping in my own lane. I'm doing what I do.
I'm never scared what people are gonna think about music that I make.
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.
I have found that people who have a passion or a strong will for what they want to achieve, and who do not allow others to smear or sully their inner pictures of what they want to manifest, always seem to get what they desire in their lives.
