Lewis Capaldi Quotes

Nobody is really going to bring my vision to life like the way that I am. Before I was doing my own music videos, it was not really my vision.

But if I really want to produce my own work and tell stories, then I will.

I write my own songs. I made my own videos. I pick my producers. Nothing goes out without my permission. It's all authentic.

I don't want people to just hand me music and be like, 'Here, you sound good on this. Sing it.' I want to be able to say, 'This is me.'

I'd like to make mistakes on my own dime and not have a herd of people tell me what I'm doing wrong. and I'm also still trying to find and develop my voice as a filmmaker, and I think that's easier to do on your own terms than trying to satisfy a bunch of people that are paying for the movie.

I understand it's my role to realize people's dreams. I'm O.K. with that so long as my songs are my own. No one can take my songs away from me.

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.

My job is to just express something that I want to express. And if I'm ahead or behind the curve, that's for others to decide.

I always write the pieces I want to write.

I just want to make good films on my own wherever I can.

I don't know if most people know it or not, but I produce, like, 95% of my own stuff.

When I make movies, I don't ever go out there to please anyone other than myself. I never try to make a film for the masses. I just try to tell my story.

They say I'm insane because I need to have so much creative control. They say I'm unmanageable, but I'm not. I just know what I like. I'm obsessed with it. If you can't control it, that's like having somebody else paint your pictures. How could you do that? I never could.

I formed a resolution to never write a word I did not want to write; to think only of my own tastes and ideals, without a thought of those of editors or publishers.

As a self-published author, you have the choice. Embrace the power to create a book that is truly yours. Don't be a whiner or a copycat.

I don't make films for other people; I make films for me.

I mean, at the end of the day when I'm making a record, what I want to do is what I do.

Putting out commercial pieces and promoting them and trying to sell them to people is not necessarily what it means to be an artist.

I will not let my sales figures dictate what I say on the blog, because the blog is what I want to say.

I just make the movies I want to see. I've always been that way.

What happens with artists, or people who start off doing things for the right reasons, is that you slowly start to paint yourself into a corner by doing what people outside of the creative world are asking you to do, and I think that's antithetical to being an artist.

My art and my creativities were totally something that was of my own heart and mind. I could never let anybody dictate to me what I should write and how I would write it.

It's important to make art that you intended to make. If it gets compromised later, that's not a good thing.

I was never your average artist, happy to do whatever the record company told me.

The only place where any artist feels liberated is doing independent music. I have had great experience making music for The Dewarists and Coke Studio. No actor, producer or label is telling me what to do with my music. I'm the boss. It is my life, my expression.