Porter Robinson Quotes

I never was the battle rapper. That was never my thing. I always felt like it's enough room for everybody to do their thing. I like bringing new energy, re-inventing the wheel, so to speak, every time I come out.

Don't just rehash what came before. Find new things to do with it, in your unique voice.

I don't find myself so exercised by a desperation to be new.

I think rappers spend a lot of time trying to figure out what is new. 'How can I say this in a way that no one has ever said it before?'

It's hard to find things that haven't been said before or drawn before, but I'm trying.

If it feels like you're aiming for something too familiar, and you're not having a primary new experience, then what's the point of making that movie? It's been done before, so try to find something new out of it.

My main point is to entertain in a way that is unique and different from what anybody else id doing; to apply my voice in a way that nobody else in the industry is applying theirs.

I've always been controversial because I offer new ideas. For me to be controversial, I think this is positive.

I love to work with artists that were able to find a brand new name and create something really exciting and fresh.

I've had a lot of folks tell me that my songs weren't quite country because they didn't really sound like anybody that had come along and done it before me. I felt a little out of place for a while.

As an action director, I always try to bring something fresh and new.

To be an original is probably the hardest quality to find if you're a young filmmaker.

I wanted to make my sophomore film as different as possible. I didn't want to be pigeonholed. I didn't want to be identifiable.

It's no fun for me to cover a song and produce it the exact same way as it already exists. When I hear that happening, I have to say, 'What's the point?'

If it feels like we're re-creating something rather than creating something, we don't do it.

I would never want to take on a sequel of someone else's stuff unless I was totally reinventing it.

I'm trying to do different music, and I'm trying to be out of the box.

I think it's been obvious from the beginning that my projects are not going to be something that people already have in mind. You can't be thinking about such things when you create something.

'Runaways' was exciting because it was something brand-new and fresh, and I'm hoping to be able to bend the rules in my own way of what a Marvel superhero story can be.

I think I wanted my solo debut to be very unpredictable.

I've always tried to do things a little bit before they were being done by the mainstream. I challenge myself to do that in stand-up also, to talk about things that I'm not hearing anybody talk about onstage and in the media.

Follow your genius closely enough, and it will not fail to show you a fresh prospect every hour.

Originality is deliberate and forced, and partakes of the nature of a protest.

I dont want to create a monster; I want to make something which is new, exceptional, something that only I do...something that references tradition, but is still new.

Don't try to be just like some other singer hitting it big - find your own style and be honest in your performances. And never underestimate your audience.