Kerli Quotes

Bring together things that have as yet never been brought together and did not seem predisposed to be so.

The works we do in Moooi are very diverse, very eclectic. That's how we like it.

I would never, ever call myself a createur or a designer. I'm more of an amalgamator or a D.J., taking two things that don't go together and making them go together.

When I see a wall that's hung with different objects, framed or unframed, what I like about it is its fluidity and rule-breaking nature. Just experiment a bit.

I mix everything up. A museum curator once said to me that there is a great jazz component to the way I do things because good jazz is improvisation and draws elements from all different cultures. And that's the way I do everything - the way I dress and decorate.

I love to play things that are out-of-the-box. It's just that I don't always get the chance to do it!

My sensibilities are like, 'I want it to be weirder.'

I try stuff. I synthesize what's of value with some of the other things I have at my disposal.

My drumming is always an experiment.

I think probably with any performer, but maybe with rock music especially, the audience wants to see the singer being real, and exploring, and not doing a rehearsed routine, so I'm just constantly looking for new things to try. I'm really curious out there, and my curiosity has led me into all kinds of bizarre situations.

The essential is to excite the spectators. If that means playing Hamlet on a flying trapeze or in an aquarium, you do it.

I find that I'm quite experimental. I'm drawn to the brighter and weirder things.

I like working with creative people who are receptive to new ideas, who want to do things that are different, who want to create films of a different mould.

Back then we were young, we would just mash all forms of music together and come up with something.

I like things that don't go together.

When creating 'Cowboy Bebop,' I thought it would be more interesting if I added different types of elements together to create something that was completely new.

I like to mix things up and I take inspiration from many different art forms.

I never work with one inspiration in mind. I like to take things from everywhere and piece it together. It's never a theme or a trick.

Jazz is an octopus. It will take whatever it can use and it will work with it.

In my films, all the great things are put together. It's not like one kind of ice cream but rather a very big Sundae.

It's important to pull tons of pieces! If you have lots of options to choose from, you can play around and see that things that you wouldn't originally have expected to work together actually do! That applies to both clothing and decorating.

To be fair, on a good project, no matter whether it's improvised or scripted or meticulously prepared, or all up for grabs, it's always, always beyond the safety zone. Every project becomes interesting and exciting once you move beyond that routine. You always aspire to that. It's not that this improvisational mode is the only mode that facilitates that.

The idea is to take it a step forward and innovate. Or else why am I doing it? I don't want to be just another can in the assembly line. I want to create - do something that is totally different and unusual.

I can't just have one painting - I need to cover the wall in paintings. It's the same with my music. I want to mix everything together to create more.

I'm always trying to do things that no one has ever seen before.