Carmen Cusack Quotes

I do what I love to do, what I choose to do.

I'm just an artist and I'm doin' what I like to do.

If we could all figure out a way to just be true to ourselves and have a good time doing what we're doing, it would be a lot more fun.

No one told us what to wear, what to write, what to play. When they tried to, we shot 'em down easily.

In my first label Shrapnel Records I wasn't expected to do anything except the creative music that I wanted to do. I was my own boss, which is great.

I love photography - I fell in love with photography, I think, because it was my own thing, it wasn't something I needed other people's permission to do. So, it was really freeing for me actually to be able to not be a famous person and just to take pictures.

You cannot live to please everyone else. You have to edify, educate and fulfill your own dreams and destiny, and hope that whatever your art is that you're putting out there, if it's received, great, I respect you for receiving it. If it's not received, great, I respect you for not.

I just try to live my life and do my thing.

I spent a lot of time doing things other people wanted me to do, so I'm doing what I want to do now.

I'm playin' the music I like.

I care so much about making things that are useful for people to have and listen to, but I don't care so much that I won't do whatever the hell I want. It's just one of those things.

I am interested in art as a means of living a life; not as a means of making a living.

You've got to live your life, you've got to enjoy it.

I just love the idea of going into a room and creating something by myself.

I'm going to skate exactly the way I want to, create programs that I like, and everything will fall into place where it is supposed to.

I don't care about commercial success. I get to do what I love and communicate whatever I want.

Either you live by the barometer of the music critics, or you live by your own. I choose the latter.

It was very important to me that I be my own person. That's why I chose show business.

The process of writing and creating and answering that very unique call inside yourself has nothing to do with agents and sales and all that stuff.

Life's too short to be shoehorned into a box that isn't for you.

We are so grateful we are given the chance and the freedom to do what we want, what we want to create, what's on our mind, and that's honestly what we asked for in the beginning of our career.

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

I was not going to be an actor. I was an engineer in physics. That's what I did: I graduated with a physics degree, and I had become a little bit distressed that I'd have to work for somebody - anybody! And I thought, "I'm not going to make a mark on anything. If I can't express myself, then I don't know what the heck I'm going to do with this life." I think it was just one of those germs that said, "No, no, no, you've got to say things. You've got to tell people things. You've got to express your opinion in this life, because that's how you started."

You're the artist - you make the music that you want to make.

It's impossible to just come up with one thing that I could say to the world. That's why I've spent my life in the pursuit of the opportunity to sing to it. Summing it up goes against what fuels me.