Alex Karpovsky Quotes

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.

My goal was, and still is, to write first, direct my own stuff whenever possible and control my own creative destiny.

I've been wanting to produce for some time because I want to have more creative control over the things that I do and not be victim to the whims of other people's desires.

And what makes Bob Dylan stories interesting is that the only person who can decide their outcome is Bob Dylan, so you never know how they're going to go.

There hasn't been one moment in my career where I felt I didn't have any control over the creative aspects of my records.

Everything in my career is my decision - every picture, every outfit. You get one chance at this, and I never saw myself as being a puppet.

I want to be able to go wherever I want to go, do whatever I want to do. I guard the material and the filmmaker.

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 have a freedom that's incredibly valuable. Obviously my freedom is far smaller in scale than people like Zemeckis and Spielberg have here. But it's comparable. I can dream up a project, develop it, make it, control it, release it.

I'm actually living my life with the material I choose to work with.

I don't much like being directed. I enjoy being allowed to play.

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 would never tell someone else how to use their platform, because I think I'm much more comfortable allowing the work that I do to speak for itself.

Honestly, I never felt like I wasn't an artist on my own. I always felt like the music I made was mine, whether it was part of a collaboration with people.

I don't like being told what to do, and I don't need to be told what my record should sound like.

I always felt like an outsider of the industry, and now I feel quite comfortable as an independent artist.

I am trying to be true to the work that I want to do and be allowed to make the choices that I want to make.

Can't nobody make you make any music that you don't wanna make. Remember that.

Respect is one of the greatest expressions of love. If other people try to write your story, it means they don't respect you. They consider that you're not a good artist who can write your own story, even though you were born to write your own story.

I didn't come to Hollywood to be subservient to anyone else's vision.

I can't tell you how freeing it is to have my own label. For the first time in my career, I have total control.

Weezer isn't stuck in roles, so we just do what we want to do, what makes us excited.

You gotta make the movie you want to make.

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 really have to feel a sense of freedom in my storytelling.