Mase Quotes

I am surely happy to be breaking away from the norm when it comes to my songs.

I'm part of the fashion system, but I don't want to follow all the rules. I don't want to be contrarian - I just want to do my own things, which are most honest and correct to do.

My early experiences in animation taught me that following someone else is not a great idea.

If you look at somebody like Sam Bee, she got to create her own thing without any expectations that there was a show there. That was probably liberating for them.

I am very much my own person and my own artist.

I love the freedom to do whatever I want with style and not be put into a box.

I personally do not listen to a lot of music. It helps keep my mind free. I don't want to sound like someone else from the get-go. I want to express myself and the world in my head.

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've never really tried to copy anyone; I like to have my own style.

For a writer, you definitely do not want to be in the mainstream. You want to be on the edge because that's where the vantage point is. That's where you can see.

I publish my own music. I'm creating my own songbook. It works that way for me; I'm very independent.

No, because I don't want to hear what's hot and feel I have to copy it. I'll just make up my own thing.

I have no models in Japanese literature. I created my own style, my own way.

The educator should do anything but advise the child to do what everybody does. He should rather rejoice when he sees in the child tendencies to deviation.

I found it liberating of necessity to devise my own style and my own tactics and to look for a voice on the instrument because there weren't really any that impacted strongly on me.

Rules and models destroy genius and art.

Everyone has his own sound. I'm not going to presume how to tell anybody how to write.

I couldn't imitate anyone if I wanted to.

I think as long as you're being creative and finding your own work interesting, that's all that matters.

I think I became my own stylist by not knowing any better.

But when you're beginning, you should try to focus on something you love and your own way of doing things.

I'm very much a girl that likes to have options. That's the way I am with fashion, and that's the way I am with my life.

People say I've gone against Hollywood, but I've tried to be independent within Hollywood, tried to be my own person.

The fact that I have been successful merely means that I can write and illustrate in my own way.

My music is like my freedom space.