James Hetfield Quotes

I never think about what others are doing. I do a film for myself, not others.

I'm not trying to appeal to anybody. I just try to do my thing and make the best music I can make.

I try to please myself. I don't try to anticipate what people want to see.

I don't care what people do. I don't care how people remember my albums. I do them for my own reasons.

That's my actual payment, the fact that I can actually make something that I actually enjoy and put on repeat, and it's not related to anything else or anyone else's thoughts and ideas, it all came from me; I just love that aspect of it.

I think as long as you're being creative and finding your own work interesting, that's all that matters.

It's nice to create something you believe in. It's even nicer to dance to your own tunes sometimes.

I have this original style that I want to show to the world. I don't want to be kind of this beat down, bruise-you-up kind of dude and have Karl Anderson cut all my promos for me. I don't want to have to do that.

... We have quite a large area, and that makes it more fun for us - certainly more satisfying, because it doesn't restrict us to one particular idea or one particular style. The result, I think, is pretty interesting ... we don't expect to make a fortune at it or ever be popular or famous or worshipped or hit The Ed Sullivan Show or the circuses or the big top. As long as we can play, we'll play, regardless of what it's for, who it's for or anything. It's fun for us - that's the important thing.

I’m not trying to satisfy anybody but myself and the role that I’m playing.

I'm certainly not who people think I am. I always do whatever I want to do, and my films are personal to me.

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.

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

I mean, if I was living to please people, I'd have never been in a band at all. I wouldn't have anything awesome around. I'd just be bored.

I'm not entangled in shaping my work according to other people's views of how I should have done it.

I like to choose my own way forward. I really do want to create something that I personally like a lot.

There's a lot of creative freedom. Acting is a whole boatload of fun, but I prefer to do it on my own terms.

I don't care what other people think any more about me writing my own parts.

Rock is all about writing your own script; it's all about pioneering.

Whatever I do, I do it because I want to do it and because it's completely, 100% me.

I only write music for myself, I don't try and appeal to anyone else.

At this stage of my life, I've dedicated myself to playing what I want to play, how I want to play it for the rest of my time. Regardless of whether one might like it or one might not like it, this is where I am.

I don't have to do things just to please people. It's okay to do what I love because what I love, my fans love. And they're really the only ones that should matter.

Being cool is being your own self, not doing something that someone else is telling you to do.

I think the most important thing for an artist is to not worry about what anybody else thinks. You just have to do what comes from your heart and your being and put it out there-that's true in any of the arts.