Les Claypool Quotes

I'm very antischedule. Except for board meetings, I don't really schedule things or keep a calendar. I think appointments are caustic to creativity.

I've got no timetable. I'm sort of sick of timetables, to be honest.

The only rule is there's only one rule: no rules.

There's no fixed pattern or formula to life.

I don't plan anything - I just let myself go with the flow.

My style is very spontaneous.

A jam means it's not structured - let it go. Let it go here, let it go there.

Spontaneity has its time and its place.

I don't plan an awful lot in life just as I don't plan an awful lot in my fiction.

I end up writing about all kinds of things. I never make an attempt to write about anything in particular. I don't have a little list of topics to write about.

I want less and less control with music. Just playing music without any idea of composition or writing.

Everything I do is usually totally spontaneous.

I just want to live my life a little freely and not adhere to any schedule - just make music and have fun.

I'm very spontaneous.

The hardest thing is that I never do anything the same way twice, and when I'm on the air, I'm very unscripted, and I'm very comfortable in that role. So me being scripted is not a comfortable place for me.

I try to leave things as open ended as possible, not too overladen with meaning.

You can't make a rule about it. The minute you make a rule, it's like putting your wedding pictures in 'In Style' magazine - you're divorced.

Somebody who doesn't understand my directing style could be pretty taken aback by it if I start going off the schedule and focusing on something because I'm inspired in the moment.

I hate everything that is rigid. I need freedom.

I love the fact that I can live a spontaneous lifestyle.

I created 'You Can't Stop Me' without trying. There was nothing premeditated about that record.

I love films that are more random and chaotic, finding moments and capturing them.

I was never restricted. I was never told what to do.

Improvisation is terribly haphazard.

The way I write is very much without kind of a goal. I have something I'm interested in and then I decide I'm going to explore it. I don't know where the characters are going to go, I don't know what the movie is going to do or what the screenplay is going to do. For me, that's the way to keep it alive.