I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them; if I find them too obnoxious, I break them. I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do.
All that is solid melts into air. All fixed, fast-frozen relations, with their train of ancient and venerable prejudices and opinions, are swept away, all new-formed ones become antiquated before they can ossify.
There are no rules. That is how art is born, how breakthroughs happen. Go against the rules or ignore the rules. That is what invention is about.
All great truths begin as blasphemies.
Everything is theoretically impossible, until it is done.
I just wanted to make something in the world and worry about the rest of it later and not get too caught up in rules.
My remit has always been: I want to do something different from the last thing I've done.
There is no subject so old that something new cannot be said about it.
We're impressed by people who don't know what can't be done.
As the generalization goes about the art industry, people can be really challenging and thought-provoking in their thinking and questioning the status quo, and it's really important that the status quo can be questioned and that there are people doing that.
If a musician dares to get out of the box he's been put in, people get confused. They want people where they can find them! I am fortunate in some respects as I've always been known as someone who 'moves around' and tries different things. But generally, we are supposed to stay where we're put.
I know what my comfort zones are. But without a back-up, I will never step out of my comfort zone. I don't go bungee jumping; I won't jump from the third floor without a safety net. I don't do such things. That's not my personality type.
To me, unconventional thinking is approaching a problem and asking, 'Why not? Why can't something be done?' If someone can't give me a good reason why you can't do something, I find a way to do it.
I was stuck in a wheelchair playing this deranged villain. I felt this mass amount of rage at being so confined. I thought, 'What can I do that is the direct opposite of this situation?' The only thing I could think of was that I could sing and dance.
I never want to get stuck in the box.
You do not move forward by following convention. You celebrate those who are different, who are not burdened by 'normality.'
Hip hop is doing the new rock thing; there are no rules. They can do anything, really. And that's inspiring.
Man, he is constantly growing and when he is bound by a set pattern of ideas or way of doing things, that's when he stops growing
The freedom of punk really appealed to me because I came from the rules and regulations of studying classical piano.
I'm more attracted to art that smashes than I am attracted to art that sits on a shelf and is beautiful.
We have to take risks with art. If we don't, it all becomes a bit boring.
We're all so mauled by information, but it's recycled information. We need to shut it out. So, you've got to get bizarre. This is an artist's purpose - to break away from the recycled. Performance art can do that.
While I'm leader, nothing will be off limits - there will not be one policy, one rule, one way of working which cannot be changed.
Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties.
I've never thought that being Scottish should mean there was any kind of barrier to me getting where I wanted to go, and I still feel like I can keep improving.
