Innovative Exploration Quotes

One of the things with the second record, a word I held close to my chest was 'brave.' To take chances to go outside the box and explore. To continue to toss off any expectation that our fans or anyone else might have of us, to just tap into who I am as a writer and artist and really just operate within that freedom of creation.

Music is progressive, you get out, you experiment with new people and you grow.

If you want to be creative, go where your questions lead you.

Obviously, I never want to make the same record twice. I want to keep moving forward. That's the real challenge, I think.

As artists, we have to be brave. If we aren't brave, we aren't artists.

Learning is definitely not mere imitation, nor is it the ability to accumulate and regurgitate fixed knowledge. Learning is a constant process of discovery - a process without end.

I don't see writing as a communication of something already discovered, as "truths" already known. Rather, I see writing as a job of experiment. It's like any discovery job; you don't know what's going to happen until you try it.

The fact that this radiation is so penetrating - nothing stops it - makes it so you can look for things that you have never seen before, and you can look at things you know in a way that's new. That is really the big step forward.

I found it was way more fun to build useless stuff.

Imagination labors best in distant fields.

The refusal to rest content, the willingness to risk excess on behalf of one's obsessions, is what distinguishes artists from entertainers, and what makes some artists adventurers on behalf of us all.

I think there is quite a continuity over my 25 years of doing music, and I'm always trying to break away from it.