Rivers Cuomo Quotes

Just finding ways to be not provocative for provocative's sake, but to show an idea that hasn't been shown before, I mean that's interesting to me.

Artists rarely do the same thing over and over again. Art is about the new, doing things in a new way.

Creativity has got to have some edge to it, doesn't it?

I never liked to copy things that are out there. I always like to come up with something new, something different.

I'm experimental by nature... always exploring my creativity.

In the creative industries, there are few things more exciting than a zinger - a thought, idea, line, plot device - anything really, that just totally works in a fundamentally new and fresh way. It's like a uniquely lovely melody or a new taste idea in cooking. Something special, something new, something wonderful. They're also very rare.

Before I do anything, I think, well what hasn't been seen. Sometimes, that turns out to be something ghastly and not fit for society. And sometimes that inspiration becomes something that's really worthwhile.

I'm into creating something that I've never created before.

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

You can't just be a rock star by rehashing things you've seen or done before. Bring something new, which is what hip-hop does best.

I always imagine, and try to be on the lookout, for new things, for references that can inspire me creatively so I can showcase things that people haven't done before or that are new.

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.

As a songwriter, you always want to search for something that's right in front of you that you can twist into something new.

I've said, for a long time, my favorite part of my career is when I'm creating a new thing where I'm pulling from a new place.

Creativity is very self-indulgent.

Creativity is the process of bringing something new into being.

I hope what I do has an art to it, and as an artist you have to try new things and keep yourself entertained.

If you stick with a vision, it might not all work, but some of it will be absolute genius. To me, 15 minutes worth of absolute genius in a film is so much better than two hours of mediocrity. I would rather pay to see something different like that.

One of the great joys of life is creativity. Information goes in, gets shuffled about, and comes out in new and interesting ways.

We wanted to offer something new to our audience. I hate it when bands stop taking chances.

For me, it would be pointless to write a novel that I knew I could complete within a specific length of time. I could do that only by repeating something I had done before, and I've never wanted to do that.

I wanted each of my books to be very different from the others, each to be special and uncategorizable, and I knew I could only do that a few times before I was in danger of repeating myself.

Make something new, and define territory that's never been. I fall in love with shows because I've never see that before. I fall in love with new vocabularies.

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