Poo Bear Quotes

I'm growing as an artist and expanding my range, and not pigeonholing myself by doing the same thing, over and over.

When some artistes give a hit song, they keep repeating themselves in the same genre. I always try to create something new.

I want to make every film different from my previous one.

As a director, you try to find what is creative.

I'm just not somebody who can sit around doing nothing, and all of us in the Foo Fighters have our own things outside of the band. I'm not going to use the cliche that those outlets bring us back fresh and with new ideas, but what I will say is that it keeps us all feeling free - and that creative freedom is a very positive thing.

Being an artist is in part an act of rupture.

I'm so happy people are seeing the eclectic side of me. I'm really honored to be able to push my voice into different sounds. Otherwise it all gets a bit samey same.

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've had a lot of folks tell me that my songs weren't quite country because they didn't really sound like anybody that had come along and done it before me. I felt a little out of place for a while.

Know what the old masters did. Know how they composed their pictures, but do not fall into the conventions they established. These conventions were right for them, and they are wonderful. They made their language. You make yours. All the past can help you.

When I've worked with established artists, I've naturally been more restricted, but you still have to take risks and push yourself to do something different.

I never wanted to do the same kind of movies over and over anyway, so my theory on it all is I'm just gonna try and dodge the label and keep doing what I am doing.

Never try to make the same record twice, even when people are screaming for the same sound.

My greatest desire as an actor is to keep people guessing and not do anything close to what I did last time.

You need the past as a guideline. The history of music is a good basis, but to escape that stuff, that tortuous rulebook, you have to learn it first. It's kind of like religion - once you've written the Bible, that's it, move on.

Everything that an artist does is a risk. Some people want you to stay the same. If you want to evolve, they want to keep you in a certain place.

Artists rarely do the same thing over and over again. Art is about the new, doing things in a new way.

But I'd be lying if I didn't say that every time you go to make a film, you're desperate to either do it better than you did it last time or to not repeat yourself.

I've had to keep exploring different ways of presenting the music so I don't repeat myself.

I wanted to make my sophomore film as different as possible. I didn't want to be pigeonholed. I didn't want to be identifiable.

I don't like playing standards. I like to do my own cutting edge work.

I want to direct what I feel is interesting - not what is supposed to be my zone.

In each medium - popular music, literature, and visual art, respectively - the woman has broken form, shed a skin, with each phase of her career, whereas the man has returned to ever-deepening iterations of the sound or sentence or imagery with which he began.

If it feels like we're re-creating something rather than creating something, we don't do it.

I always want to do - take everything and take it to the next step. I don't want to just keep doing something the same ol' thing. Obviously, I could have wrote 'Mother' 20 times and made tons of money and be playing gigantic arenas and whatever, but that's not really what I want to do.