Ross Lynch Quotes

I sort of look at acting like that: if you have no confines, you have everywhere to go.

The Internet offers opportunities that are more unique than ever before. With TV, I know I'm making 22 minutes; I know there's a commercial in the middle. With the Internet, no one knows anything. No rules.

I'm just going to make the music I love to make, and I'm going to mature with my music.

Maybe other musicians are interested in different things, maybe they have greater monetary concerns. I hear people who have not changed, who haven't elevated anything, who are the same as they were back in the '50s and '60s.

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

The way people receive our music is different and some people may say that our music is not metal. But I feel that those reviews allow us to challenge ourselves and gives us an opportunity to grow even more.

Twenty-fourteen is all about growth musically and new agendas.

I always want to keep things unwritten. I'm inspired by Bob Dylan, who's kept evolving and changing his sound. I think that's what you should do as an artist. Why be comfortable?

There is nothing constant in the universe. All ebb and flow, and every shape that's born, bears in its womb the seeds of change.

I'm different in the sense that every minute of every day, I change. I'm thinking. But the basic principles that have powered me forward are still there. They're not different.

I could do another tour, make a record that's very similar, do similar venues. Or I could make a different record, do different venues, and grow. It's exciting to take it to new places, but it's never been my intent to be the biggest thing in the world. That's not what my drive is. I want to make what I want to make, and make a living off it.

To listen to my first record, it doesn't sound like me.

I think every artist wants to create something, on their own, without any boundaries.

You could say, 'Oh, we're gonna write the heaviest album of all time' or 'We're gonna write an album that sounds like 'Iowa.'' Even if we set out to try to do so, it would never compare. We're not those people anymore, we're not that band anymore.

Moving to San Francisco affected me in a pretty profound way, in a lot of respects. I think it helped me evolve my sound and think outside of the space I'd been in in Sacramento. The scene there is so insular and kind of feeds on itself: you just end up playing the same shows with the same people for the same people.

Never give an artist like me carte blanche: he would think it's simply toilet paper.

My style was established in the Forties and Fifties, then got dragged through the decades and picked up a couple more things on the way.

There's no safety in anything, but in the arts, there is really this idea of no promises. I didn't follow the writing dream for safety.

I always grow, every album.

We went through an era of big dance records, an era of hip-hop being the biggest thing on the planet. The people who really break through are the people who are not afraid to express themselves in how they feel.

I've always wanted to make that change from a rapper into an artist.

I've established a certain voice over my albums. It can be an obstacle, but in the end, I think it's a strength, because I can build upon that voice, which is ultimately very much mine.

I'm going to keep evolving and evolving and showing people that progression is key when it comes to music.

Even on tour, where I perform songs from 'City Of Black And White,' I still do songs from 'Nothing Left To Lose.' I never turned my back on that material. On some albums, you change - that's all. The trick is to follow your heart and do what feels right.

I'm constantly progressing. My style is changing every day.