Quotes About Individuality

Acting is a very personal process. It has to do with expressing your own personality, and discovering the character you're playing through your own experience - so we're all different.

When you please others in hopes of being accepted, you lose you self-worth in the process.

I definitely enjoy working with people who can do their thing but also allow me to do my thing, you know? Who respect the process.

The process of composing the film score for each movie is completely different. They all have their own personality and their own completely different life, but there's never been a formula. Each time, it's a new thing.

People thought 'Classic Man' was processed. But then they realized, 'Oh, this guy actually is that man, and he actually dresses like that.'

What do we mean by 'crazy?' What do we mean by 'mad?' At what point is a person just different and at what point can we call it a disease and say that they are not responsible for their actions? Or are we all slaves to the chemical processes that go on in our brains?

For the sound we produce, everybody is equally important. Each of us has a very different personality and that is what keeps Bush alive.

One of the ideas behind doing this acoustic record is that I didn't want to have to produce it by committee.

Nothing is really media driven or committee driven, so you can actually just produce something.

I'm not really married to the craft of jazz - I'm married to me, and my style, and whatever I produce.

It's no fun for me to cover a song and produce it the exact same way as it already exists. When I hear that happening, I have to say, 'What's the point?'

You learn that different people are made differently, and they have different ways to reach to their goals. Some people reach their limits of what they can produce and create, and that doesn't necessarily make them bad. It is just that they may not be right for that role in that instance.

All the albums that I grew up listening to were produced by one person.

Duh! So, we're asking you now, what are some of your favorite lines that this warlock brain produced?

I sang with a voice that was natural, and I liked the way I produced that sound. I thought of my other friends, that they were singing and dancing, but they didn't have this. I was special.

I can't tell you how satisfying it is to have something that is your own idea get produced and then become successful.

People were like, 'You're crazy. You're going to lose all your credibility and fans.' But I wanted to try new things and make my own music. So I became a producer.

No support of one star or one director or one producer can make any individual actor a star. You have to connect with the audience; the audience have to like you. That is something that cannot be manipulated or fought for or tried for. Either they like you, or they don't.

Every song that is a Hopsin song, I 100 percent made it. Nobody helped me. There was no producer to say, 'Hey, put the beat like this... ' It was all me. If the song was wack, then the song was wack. If it's dope, it is what it is.

A producer should only be there to enable an artist to be himself.

One thing I've learned is that the best thing a producer can do is help you be you.

As an artist, you can't expect a producer to just bring you a record. If you walk in and say, 'I want Kanye West's 'Power,' it just doesn't work that way.

Every now and then, as a composer and producer, it's important to write music for yourself.

Every creator has to follow what they believe. That's the message I would love for every single executive to get, to clearly understand, and every single producer out there.