Gotye Quotes

If you're not allowed to experiment anymore for fear of being considered self-indulgent or pretentious or what have you, then everyone's going to just stick to the rules - there's not going to be any additional ideas.

We stand for creativity and pushing boundaries and having fun with one's music.

Every time I get in the studio, I feel like I wanna have some fun. My fun is not doing the easy work. My fun is doing what's me.

I always wanted to be really experimental.

Creating content and never being afraid to try something new have been my two hallmarks.

I don't want to limit myself to any genre or language or a type. I want to always surprise the audience and, hence, keep raising the bar for myself.

As an actor, I still have to remind myself of daring to let go and not to repeat myself.

Not to be boxed in, to be able to transcend boundaries: for an artist, it's essential.

It's all about risk-taking when you're making an album. Don't be scared to do weird things sometimes.

The best thing for an actor is to try it his way. The way they do it may not work, but it may inspire me to try something else.

I love to get to that place where I don't know what kind of music I'm doing; I don't know if it's any good. I don't know if it's anything. It's a big question mark. The idea is to have interesting results. That's my bottom line.

It's always been very important to me to try to do projects which are breaking new ground.

More or less, I am always saying, 'Let's do what has not been done.'

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

I think if anything, what 'The Astonishing' proved is that we're always going to experiment.

I was kind of nervous to put 'Learning' out: it's a lot different. That's who I am. I'm going to push the boundaries.

Part of the fun is finding out how elastic that box is and, you know, test the limits of what TV shows can do or what a music video can do.

As an actor, when you don't have a reference to pick from, you experiment, try out new things. And what comes of it eggs you on. You realize your capabilities and push your limits.

That's just what I want to do: Create a path that's unknown. It's hard in this business and this world we live in to trail-blaze. To create something different and do your own thing is hard nowadays. That's what I want to do. I want to take these matches to a whole new level and break that bar.

One of the things with the second record, a word I held close to my chest was 'brave.' To take chances to go outside the box and explore. To continue to toss off any expectation that our fans or anyone else might have of us, to just tap into who I am as a writer and artist and really just operate within that freedom of creation.

I'm not afraid to have a really weird idea or, you know, take a really bad guitar solo.

With my own music, I try to get away from things that are familiar and things that would be easy for me to go to.

We're all trying to be artists making our own unique statements. I think the only real way to do that is through failure.

We must risk going too far to discover just how far we can go.

I’m an artist who is always looking for what is possible. I’m always looking to extend the boundaries.