No I.D. Quotes

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

I want to do everything I can possibly do to step outside the box.

Hip-hop can be limiting and I refuse to accept limits.

Being an artist is in part an act of rupture.

The first prerogative of an artist in any medium is to make a fool of himself.

Original thought, original artistic expression is by its very nature questioning, irreverent, iconoclastic.

One of the things I've tried to do in my career is really write different kinds of books, so I'm able to broaden people's expectations of what I'm allowed to do.

All I really want to do is things I haven't done. 'I'm gonna put a paper bag on my head and be on the cover of 'Billboard,' see what I can get away with - if they'll let me.' And they let me. And I am literally giggling inside for, like, a month that I got away with it.

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.

Who but the artist has the power to open man up, to set free the imagination? The others - priest, teacher, saint, statesman, warrior - hold us to the path of history. They keep us chained to the rock, that the vultures may eat out our hearts. It is the artist who has the courage to go against the crowd; he is the unrecognized "hero of our time" - and of all time.

Art has to change things, and if it was immediately acceptable it would not be doing the job.

To create one's world in any of the arts takes courage.

I think you don't do work for controversy alone, and whenever you do new work which people don't understand and they say it is done to create controversy.

For a writer, you definitely do not want to be in the mainstream. You want to be on the edge because that's where the vantage point is. That's where you can see.

I really like it when you can step outside of what's come before and find a surprise for the reader and find a surprise for yourself.

Each single gesture of art must be daring. One must not be concerned with the side-effects.

When I have a camera in my hand, I know no fear.

Audacity is central to everything I do. A lot of times I think my work is about just seeing if I can get away with it.

I'm not an artist, and I want to take risks, and when the possibility of failure occurs, it's because the idea is all exciting or interesting as a high wire act, and sometimes you've got to fall off, just by virtue of the fact that you're constantly trying to evolve and do new things.

I'm an artist, and I like the risk - I'm not in it for the sure things.

Any creative process is about being in a territory which isn't secure, isn't necessarily familiar, and isn't convenient in any sort of way. And that's the excitement of it.

Like art, revolutions come from combining what exists into what has never existed before.

There has to be an element of risk-taking for me in my work.

As far as expectations go, you can never work for expectations. You have to work against them.

Controversy is part of the nature of art and creativity.