My remit has always been: I want to do something different from the last thing I've done.
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.
If we never do anything which has not been done before, we shall never get anywhere. The law will stand still whilst the rest of the world goes on; and that will be bad for both.
I think not having come from the DJ world was an asset to me at first because I didn't have some of the habits other DJs had, and I think in a way that set me apart.
Scientists who play by someone else's rules don't have much chance of making discoveries.
We're offered bigger, larger budget movies to produce a lot, and we don't do them. That's not to say there aren't exceptions: there are a few exceptions, but I try and stick by the rules that produce what I think is the highest quality, most innovative work and try and let the rules go that make us feel like we're retreading.
I feel it would be a huge mistake for 'Vogue' always to be completely tasteful, completely perfect. I think it's very important for us to also rock the boat.
Why would we want to do an experimental album? That's just selfish.
And I hate to see artists who are real safe. I love to see artists swing for the fences sometimes.
My goal is to be myself, and to challenge stereotypes, and to follow the rules, and break them, and make new rules. It's not about doing something that's already been done. That would be silly.
Entrepreneurs almost always have to step out of existing institutions that embody old ways of doing things to build their vision.
My show on MTV, as outrageous as it was, it was also making a point, which was, 'Look at what we're doing here. This is something that you don't see on television every day, because you're not allowed to do this on television.'
I like being surrounded by people who have very little fear and very little respect for the past - not in a negative way, but in a positive way. They appreciate everything that's been done, but they constantly look for how to do it better.
Lil Uzi and I gave Philly different sounds by stepping outside of the box and not sticking to the stigma.
I am fascinated a) by transgressive art and b) what happens beyond the boundaries.
I don't like playing standards. I like to do my own cutting edge work.
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.
I'm known as a person who, like, steps out of the comfort zone. Who kind of breaks the rules and crosses the line in the sense of making YouTube videos.
You look at any industry - you're not innovating unless people are questioning it. If you're innovating, you're doing something nobody's done before, which means you're re-writing rules, resetting boundaries, re-creating systems. And that means the traditional industry is going to question it.
I was ready to get out of the box and play something a little different than what everybody has seen.
I don't want to just make the safe, easy commercial films.
I think that, especially with cable, it's an avenue to be creative. I think why people are drawn more now to cable shows than ever is that they take more risks, they're creatively pushing the envelope. I think that the networks have to answer to a bigger advertising calling, whereas the smaller cables have lower ceilings that they can bump their heads on.
The limits of the possible can only be defined by going beyond them into the impossible.
I don't find myself so exercised by a desperation to be new.
I want to do something different in this league, even as a rookie.
