Justin Chancellor Quotes

To the extent that independent means you're willing to attempt to put your own ideas, personality, and commitment to the material on screen, then of course I hope I'm independent until the day I die.

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

I don't care what other people think any more about me writing my own parts.

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 never wanted to be a feature - that was never the goal with my music. I didn't want to just live through other people's work.

I wanna take what I'm doing and create something around it as opposed to trying to fit into someone else's world.

I'd rather sink with my own vision than float with somebody else's.

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 try to please myself. I don't try to anticipate what people want to see.

If I'm going to go out to be a solo artist, it's because I want to do something different without having to wait on someone else's schedule or hobbies or be limited by other people's prejudices. I'd be kind of stupid not to exercise that.

I like to choose my own way forward. I really do want to create something that I personally like a lot.

Rock is all about writing your own script; it's all about pioneering.

When it came to my art, I went my own way and did not follow the trends.

I just don't like to do a lot of the normal things expected of other artists. I'm not trying to be difficult; I'm just trying to stick with what it is I want to do.

It's cool that people like what I do, but I don't work for the audience.

I think it's so important as an actor that you hang on to your own inner compass, because so many people want to guide you - 'This is what you should you be doing'. But I want to do different things.

Stand up for yourself and fight for your right to be the artist that you want to be. There's plenty of pressure from outside; people tell you how to dress and how to sing or what to sing, but I always felt like if I'm going to fail or succeed, I want to do it on my own terms.

I've had a lot of voices tell me what I should be making. Personally, I would much rather live and die by my own hand. If my stuff sucks, then at least I made it suck. I didn't allow some person, some old dude in a suit, to make it suck for me.

I really enjoy the creative freedom that I get when I produce my own projects.

I don't need anyone creatively to tell me how I'm supposed to be. Only I know the answer to that. Only I know what I would say. That's always been my outlook. I haven't really worried about rubbing people wrong because I only know how to be Bray. And Bray is always going to be Bray.

I can only do music if I can do it the way I can do it.

I have to follow my own vision.

We only do what we think is good and what we're happy with. I do that in stand-up, I even do it with my children's books. I don't do market research, I don't have focus groups, I don't care. I don't care if it fails, honestly. I'd rather have something that's completely mine fail than something succeed that I'm not proud of.

Be neither a conformist or a rebel, for they are really the same thing. Find your own path, and stay on it.

The less attention I pay to what people want and the more attention I pay to just writing the book I want to write, the better I do.