Kevin Abstract Quotes

My dream is to do whatever I want without any interference from the record company.

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.

Creative freedom is an imperative for me, but it doesn't really exist in a Hollywood game.

The reason I never wanted to sign with a big label was because I didn't want no one telling me how to make my music.

I'm making the music I want to make, in my own space, and it's just incredible to be able to continue to do that.

I'm really lucky that my record companies have been patient with me and leave me alone and give me the time to make it right in my mind.

I know that if a film is ready to emerge out of what I write, I'll be able to go off and make it without asking anyone's permission.

I'm very hands-on with my own music.

My art side is free and there are no strings attached.

Although I didn't set out to run my own label, I found it made sense quite quickly. I can say what I want and dance to my own tune, even if sometimes it's like nobody is listening. The trade-off is you stay 'cult' and resign yourself to a very modest level of what most people would call success.

I sometimes listen to music I made and find it to be something I wouldn't want to buy from a store, if there was a store. When it's like that, you have to make what you want to hear.

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've made sure that in any situation and with any record label, I'm allowed to write my own music.

I'm really excited because Interscope is really focused on artists. They've been working side by side with me creatively and allowing me to make a lot of the creative decisions, which you don't always hear about. That's why I didn't want to sign originally with a major label.

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

The record label used to try and make us do stuff, like dance, and we'd say, nah, not doing that.

Even myself, I believe that as an artist I should pursue more independent activities. If more artists believe in this and are active about it, they will be able to accomplish more on their own, without the influence of entertainment labels.

When you make music on your own for so long, you get used to just doing whatever you want.

When I'm making my music, I'm writing it, I'm producing it, I'm playing all the instruments, I'm performing. It's my own world where I do what I feel, and nobody tells me anything.

Musically, between me and my fans and also me and my team, who between management and record label have always just let me be me, it's fun to pave a path. It's fun to feel like you're doing things your own way. So in that regard I haven't had to worry about any bar but my own.

I had a little more freedom when I started sampling because you could actually do what you wanted to do.

Write what you like; there is no other rule.

I've had offers to sign a record deal, but the people I've talked to have wanted to package me and have me meet with songwriters who've written stuff for Whitney Houston, that sort of thing. That's not at all my style.

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

I kinda went back to that period between '88 and '94 where I felt like I was the most creative, without being hindered by powers that be. I was no longer going to try to hinder myself to what I thought was going to be on the radio.