Tom Green Quotes

I pay all my own bills... I want to choose the man. I do not permit men to choose me.

I still want to do features, but on my own terms.

I want everything that I've worked for to go into my pocket. I want all my money to come to me. I'm very much hands-on with my career, and I like to do what I want in the studio - I don't like being told, 'do it this way' or 'do it that way.'

I didn't come to Hollywood to be subservient to anyone else's vision.

I always knew I wanted to make my own way; I never wanted to be dependent on my father.

I never took a grant or borrowed a penny from anybody. It was partially because I didn't really know how to do that, but secondly, my pride never would have allowed me to. In the beginning it was about doing it the right way, on the merits of the music.

I started to make my own films, however small and however independent they were, from the beginning. And so, even though I was nobody, I was always the master of my own work.

I don't work to any commissions. I do what I want to do.

I do love being solo because I can have more of my own creative input to every aspect of my career.

I've always been a workhorse, and I've been supporting myself since I was 15.

I don't much like being directed. I enjoy being allowed to play.

I just kind of feel like it's my choice to do what I want to do. And my agent, he's totally with it. He tells me, 'You can turn down any audition you don't want to.'

I don't necessarily love all the collaborations that I've done; the more I work with other people, the more I realize that I want to work with myself.

My father felt that children should make their own way.

It's a huge responsibility being a solo act.

I've always been pretty self-sufficient. I never had to borrow money from my mum, even in the early days.

I've been wanting to produce for some time because I want to have more creative control over the things that I do and not be victim to the whims of other people's desires.

I didn't want to just be an artist and let someone else have all that control over me. I knew I would have to produce.

When I was doing something on someone else's dime, I was inclined to try to anticipate what they wanted. I knew that wasn't what an artist was supposed to do. In funding my own music, I found my voice.

Within the Universal deal, we've always felt like an independent act. We've never been told what to do. We've used their resources to our own design.

I've written all of my songs, I directed all my videos. Every part of what I've done for music, from the visuals to the business, I did it. And I'm really proud of that.

There is not the woman born who desires to eat the bread of dependence, no matter whether it be from the hand of father, husband, or brother; for any one who does so eat her bread places herself in the power of the person from whom she takes it.

You never work for somebody else. Someone else might sign your check, but you're the one who fills in the amount.

I've spent my life supporting myself.

I always thought that if record companies didn't understand me, fine - I'd go and do it by myself.