I'm not trying to obey the rules of radio.
One could write a history of science in reverse by assembling the solemn pronouncements of highest authority about what could not be done and could never happen.
When I approached my own movies, I went in it real innocent. I didn't pay attention to nobody else's score. I was just going to do it with how I feel it should sound. To me, that's how you create new things.
The prerequisite of originality is the art of forgetting, at the proper moment, what we know.
Do what you are not supposed to do, like wear white shoes all year round.
It's interesting to hear what somebody does when they have no interest in playing by the rules.
I'm a guy that, when there's something rolling out there, the predetermined rotations might go right in the garbage can.
In general, I'm not much into etiquette and am a rule-breaker and rebel by nature.
I devour books. But for the longest time, I refused to pay attention to genre or labels.
To be counter to the culture, you are by definition willfully and actively ignoring the culture, i.e., reality.
I'd fully taken the road many people start on, but most abandon: common sense had given me a miss, and I'd become an artist.
Just write about what bites you and damn the rest.
I'm one of those pianists who tends to ignore every existing recording and lots of traditions about playing pieces when I start.
If you do something that's not pigeonholed, it gets thrown into the 'We don't know what this is' bin, and so let's not talk about it so much.
