Paul Bloom Quotes

One of my pet peeves about Nashville is that it tends to be copycatted. I don't want to do that. I've got to be different.

Write about what makes you different.

If the stuff you're writing is not for yourself, it won't work.

My style is personal, my style of writing is personal, and I believe in that. I believe what comes out of me is an individual thing, and that's why I, I believe in the individual.

I have a philosophy that everything you write doesn't have to be good for everybody. There are going to be people that get irritated by some of the things I write-including my parents. And then there are going to be people that you draw in because of the pointedness of certain things.

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

I've learnt that I've had the best results from just trying to be me, trying to make a movie or TV show I want to see or write a script I want to read, and that's really all I can offer - being authentic.

I feel like the point of being an artist is to have your own voice: to do it the way you would do it and not the way anyone else would do it. If you're a strong enough writer, then that voice is going to come out all the time, and I can't stop it from coming out, no matter what I do.

He has found his style, when he cannot do otherwise.

I don't rap like nobody, I don't try to sound like nobody.

It does not matter how badly you paint so long as you don't paint badly like other people.

Sometimes, there's a preconceived notion of how a scene or how a work should be delivered. And I see young performers sometimes try and deliver that, and it's not really true to their voice or who they are.

Originality does not consist in saying what no one has ever said before, but in saying exactly what you think yourself.

I like to make the music that I really love. You're supposed to make your favorite music that no one else played, and I'd like to just keep it at that and not really change it at all.

In my movies, I'm not trying to erase any old image of myself, really. And also I'm not trying to imitate anyone or follow in their footsteps, because I know, Burt Reynolds was just one of the people that told me this, I know how you can only last in this business if you got something special to offer, just by being yourself.

I'm not trying to stay in the same place and I'm not trying to compete with what's currently in fashion. That would be dishonest. But, at the same time, I'm different and the music reflects that to some degree.

I have my own voice and can focus only on that. I know what I like; I find my inspirations in so many other places than just online and bring that into my work.

I think the key to great art and great artists is to just fully be yourself and not be scared of that, and be the extremes of your personality. Show the extremes of your personality and embrace the imperfections. Embrace the things about yourself that you might not like.

My style is ambiguous and lucid. I wish to be signified but not summed up. I don't want to have to go over the top each time.

I don't want ever to be guilty of what my critics claim: doing formula without original elements.

I never had the influence of any other singer in my music, so I sounded like myself all the time.

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

Don't try to write what other people are writing - write what is true to you.

The minute you succumb to outside pressure, you cease to be creative.

Don't write your books for people who won't like them. Give yourself wholly to the kind of book you want to write, and don't try to please readers who like something different.