Quotes About Individuality

I don't want to do things because it will please other people. I'm not doing this to get fame or any attention. I try to be selective about who I get advice from. I would like to contribute to the art world, but, you know, you can't plan these things.

My scope on what's good is if I like it. The first person I have to please is myself.

I don't necessarily go out and try to do something that's going to be just something that will please the audience. I'm not interested in doing something where I get the most people to come see the movie at the same time and they get the biggest explosion. I'm not interested in that.

I don't care what people say! Please get that straight. I really don't. Because I can't.

You're not going to please everybody. I've just got to do whatever I feel is right, just use my judgment.

Most of what I wear, I select myself. You can't please everybody, and as long as I'm comfortable with what I wear, I think that's what's important.

I'm very much a people-pleaser, and with a book out, I had to learn that you can't please everybody with your book.

You're not going to be perfect, but the most important thing is not trying to please anybody. It's loving yourself inside out.

It must be horrible to do things that you don't like hoping to please other people, and they don't like it either, and you've got to eat it.

I was in school for four years writing music to please my teachers. That was not music I liked. And when I make music that isn't for something I want to make, and it's to please other people, it's - the outcome is really bad.

You have to understand that your music isn't for everybody; your job isn't to please everybody.

I know at the back of my mind that there's no way I can please everybody, so I still just have to be myself anyway.

All I can do is follow my instincts, because I'll never please everyone.

It's hard to please everyone, and I learnt quite early that that's never going to happen.

You can't please everyone, nor should you seek to, because then you won't please anyone, least of all yourself.

I've learnt so much over time and with the experience that I've gained. You can't please everyone.

When you stand alone and sell yourself, you can't please everyone. But when you're different, you can last.

If you're going to perform, you're going to attract criticism. You can't please everyone all the time. You don't know how things are going to come out. But that's part of the fun of it, the adventure of doing any kind of art.

If I like it, it's gonna be on my album. You can't please everyone.

I can't please everyone. That's not in my J.D., you know, not in my job description.

People have got their opinions, and you can't please everyone.

I'm not out to please everyone.

What you learn is that you can't please everyone all the time.

I do want to make music that people love, but I also want to make music that I love. I know I can't please everyone with anything I do, so I don't think too much about how other people are going to take things.