Tierra Whack Quotes

As an artist, you tend to gravitate to the opposite. I know, when I finish a song or an album, I'm interested in doing something completely new. It doesn't always happen, but that's the idea. My poor fans - I don't know if they love that or hate that.

Working with Prince, it's kind of like he's opened up this whole new world, especially with the horn players. And I'm like, 'Man, only if I had strings on this album, too.' And I'm like, 'I wish I had an orchestra.' So I just, you know - I just wonder what's next, you know. I just want to constantly push myself for more.

Really, I get inspired by just switching projects and instrumentation and things like that - that creative part of just being different every time is really what inspires me.

It's so much in me to want to keep experimenting all the time. It's just inherent. Therefore I keep reaching for instruments I don't particularly know how to play, and then I become excited. That gives me energy to want to make new things, and it forces me to hear things in new ways, which then can only help to say things in a new way.

You've got to put interesting people around you; you've got to work with people who are gonna inspire you to take the songs you've written into a completely different direction, because there's nothing more boring than going to the studio and predictably knowing what is going to happen.

I feel like every time I take on a movie, it's important that the possibility of failure exists, and of the unknown, because it's a challenge to do something I haven't done before and something I have to try to work out.

I don't ever try to make a song better than my last song. I just try to make it different from my last one.

I always want to do something I haven't done before and get to work with other actors, writers, or directors that I want to work with.

I got a chance to work with Miles Davis, and that changed everything for me, 'cause Miles really encouraged all his musicians to reach beyond what they know, go into unknown territory and explore. It's made a difference to me and the decisions that I've made over the years about how to approach a project in this music.

What I want to happen is to be really creative, and to play something new in the improvisations, every time.

I think it's really important whilst you're a young actor to try as many new things as possible... to try and do something you haven't necessarily been seen doing before.

I'm content with making records, but I don't want to be doing the same thing all the time.

One of the things that always was Fall Out Boy was trying new things and kind of pushing ourselves in different directions.

Every time I make a film, I feel it gives me the chance to learn something new.

I think every time, before we do an album, we have a discussion where we sort of consider the idea of doing something radically different.

I don't think I'm repeating anything I've done before, but sometimes I lose track.

Each film and each character is a completely new set of challenges. It doesn't feel like you can rest on something you may have done well in the past.

If you follow the lead of the artists, they will take you places that you could never go on your own.

No artist is one-dimensional. I get the sense that if I push myself now and if I create a million different-sounding songs - I just feel that's going to be such a set-up for my ability in the future.

One thing that feels very important to me as an artist is to continually challenge myself and push myself to do all kinds of different things.

I think the best artists find ways to reinvent themselves. They find new ways to tell their stories, or they find new stories to tell.

After years of doing composition, the risk is always that you might start to repeat and be cliche. Every time, I try find a way to be reborn again as an artist. Its not easy to reinvent yourself every time, as it takes a lot of creative energy, but I am happy to do it.

I enjoy changing; I think it's more fun to try something different than to just do what you did last time. As an artist, you just want to keep creating, keep finding a place that really inspires you that feels fresh and new, and keep it exciting.

Portugal. The Man, to me, doesn't have any real ties. We try to change things up with every album, really progress, and let things happen.

It's always been my intention to never be boxed in. I never like to do something that it feels like I've done before.