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I'm lucky enough to exist in 2018, where I have a record label that's like, 'Write whatever you want to write.' I don't have to hide anything.

My ethos is musical freedom: to create whatever I want.

When I get my hands on painting materials I don't give a damn about other people's painting... every generation must start again afresh.

That was the appealing thing about comics: There literally is no budget in comics. You're only limited by your imagination.

I want to be free... free to develop my art.

The wonderful thing about writing fiction is that no one is stopping you. There's no one saying, 'You can't do that.'

I love to come to L.A. because it's one of the most inspiring places because there are no rules.

I had a lot more creative freedom back in the day.

One of the great things about working for Netflix is that they haven't placed any restrictions on content or artistically.

It feels very, very good to make a film freely, to work without having to wait years for script approval, without looking over your shoulder.

I'm dying to do a tiny indie and play something totally naturalistic without any sort of constraints on me. Something where I can shock everyone.

I write music when I'm free and for no particular project in mind.

I've been so spoiled in the theater, writing plays where I can just do exactly what I want and nobody messes with me.

All artists are now free to express their own personality.

When you are in control of what the final product is, there is kind of no limitation to what you feel like you can do because you know that if you don't like it, you can just cut it out.

The great liberation of imaginative writing is that you're not held back by the facts.

When no one knows you, and you're just trying to break into stuff, it's so good because you can write whatever you want and just say it; it's just between you and the audience. There's no process or worrying about anyone else interfering with what you're doing.

I've been very lucky in the freedom that I've been given. Every artist needs two types of freedom: You need the freedom to - the freedom to come up with an idea or treatment - and then you need the other half of the freedom, and that's freedom from - somebody saying, 'This is great. This is how I want you to do it.'

When we finally came to start work on this, the joy was it was only Joel and I, we didn't have to answer to anybody, and we didn't have to submit a screen play or anything like that. We just wrote it and then made it.

I don't want to have the bounds put on me in terms of mediums.

Sometimes I believe that the reason I have been able to do such exemplary work on the screen is because this is the only place I can be free, neither censured nor judged.

When I first started out in this music industry, I was most concerned with freedom. Freedom to produce, freedom to play all the instruments on my records, freedom to say anything I wanted to.

Panic! at the Disco, for me, has been an outlet to do whatever. I never felt like there were any rules. It was always carte blanche. I could do whatever I wanted. There were no rules set yet for the band. It just felt right.

One reason I think I am able to work with such dark material is the fact I was never really discouraged from making this kind of work.

Musically, I have little ambition. The only real ambition I have is to make music and do music whenever I feel like it, without any real ambition or planning.