Cedric Bixler-Zavala Quotes

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.

One of the things that always was Fall Out Boy was trying new things and kind of pushing ourselves in different directions.

If someone offers a film, I'm willing to do it if it's something I have not done before or pushes my boundary.

Especially with Fantomas, i'm just trying to stretch out what the band can do. Figuring out, really, on the job or on recordings, what I can or can't get away with.

Do not be precious about your music within your own world. Try everything you want to try; just because it exists doesn't mean it's done.

I look at people like Picasso and Da Vinci and Escher and Miles Davis, and they'll write or paint that one definitive masterpiece of maybe 50 that they have that's really trying to go outside the box, trying to do something that's tough. And then when you accomplish it, you look back and go, 'Yeeaaaah - masterpiece.'

I come from an art-school background, and I still feel that in my music, it's about exploration and challenging myself, about putting myself in a place that's frightening because I haven't been there before.

I want to work with performers who really are ready to lose their minds, you know? People who are established and have talent, but who are ready to break new ground and really be cracked open in a new way.

It was actually the enormous risks I took with my pictures, skating right up to the edge of non-acceptance, that paid off so handsomely.

There's no way to really mock up or simulate what I'm doing until I'm there. An exhibition for me is not a statement but an experiment.

I always want to do something I haven't done before and get to work with other actors, writers, or directors that I want to work with.

That's kind of like how jazz is sometimes. You're out there predicting the future, and no one believes you.

I always wanted to be really experimental.

People criticize you for trying new things. I think, 'I'm new! I'm 22!' I don't know exactly what my sound is or what I want my album to sound like, so I'm not releasing it yet. While I'm experimenting, I'll let you in on the journey, and you can hear it for free.

Art doesn't just happen by accident. It is about pulling out new tricks and trying new things.

My idea of artistry has always been 'try everything until you find out what works.'

With any new medium, the full power is only unearthed with experimentation.

I think if you don't risk something in art, it's not really important.

It's really fun to just stretch out and not have any boundaries or just try something for the craft.

You hear ten seconds of a song, and you know it's OutKast. There's a strangeness about it because it's catchy, but it's not just pop for the sake of pop. They're pushing the envelope.

I try every day to do something that I've never done before or make some sound that I've never made before.

I would say that is the beauty of Adult Swim is that they're always pushing forward from what they've done in the past, and they're always just trying different styles.

The only intention I've ever had creatively, as a musician, is to be as different from myself as possible.

Californian artists are kind of willing to push the limits a little bit further just because that's kind of our mentality in that state.

The only way I'm comfortable with a new album is if I'm taking a new risk.