Johnny Christ Quotes

I think we've established a convention on the show that allows us to do pretty much anything we want to.

I want to be the kind of artist who keeps pushing on every album. I don't want to settle on a sound.

It's just so much more exciting to have no limits and to be able to take your character as far as you want or need to get where you want to go.

Obviously with every new album we make, we always have to believe in it and feel we've gone in the right direction.

I don't think about what I can't do or what I shouldn't be doing. I just think there are endless possibilities musically, really.

I've got a comfortable home for my music where I can put out whatever the hell I want, and I feel like the slate is really clean, and I can get away with anything. It's a nice, free feeling.

I think the music that I'm writing and the stuff I'm going to do as I age will age.

Dream Theater has never been a band that hit at a particular fashionable point and said, 'OK, that's basically it.'

I started out in rock, but I didn't want to stay there, and haven't.

That's kind of the nature of being in a progressive band - always trying new things, moving forward.

I never want to make a complete, 180 reactional record. I wanted a connection to what I've done in the past but still move forward and evolve.

The music is the same if you go all the way back to the first albums I made or the middle or whatever. The thing that's different is the lyrics.

Portugal. The Man, to me, doesn't have any real ties. We try to change things up with every album, really progress, and let things happen.

We didn't want to change who we are. We're not going to sit there and go, 'Let's be a rap band now.'

I thought it was hilarious when 'Brace for Impact' was released, and people said I had abandoned country, even though the song is dripping with pedal steel. If anything, that tells me I'm making progress.

Saroj Kumar is a fictitious character who is free to think anything.

I just want people to know the reality, and I want people to see the world as it really is - the world is our playground, and we can do anything we want to do on it. Everyone else needs to see it that way - there are no real rules.

The whole 'Djesse' project is, like, the paramount example of something that has evolved alongside me creating it. It started as one album, and then I realized that I had too many ideas for just one album.

As we grow, our music grows, and it's very natural and organic, and it's nothing that's forced, which is really, really important to us because we don't want to just do something drastic just to do it.

Whether it's a song that might deviate from an artists' usual sound or even if it's still very much in their world, I think the more people opening themselves up creatively to collaborate with others, the better.

I think that the only goals that we try to set for ourselves is to evolve musically.

Music needs to move forward.

I feel like the sky's the limit, and anything could happen.

That's what I feel like my music represents - having no limits or restrictions.

Oneohtrix Point Never is total freedom to do what I think is right.