Barry McGee Quotes

All I really want to do is things I haven't done. 'I'm gonna put a paper bag on my head and be on the cover of 'Billboard,' see what I can get away with - if they'll let me.' And they let me. And I am literally giggling inside for, like, a month that I got away with it.

Being an artist is in part an act of rupture.

To be able to create fully, it's maybe fine that you learn the rules, but you have to forget and to rebel against those rules.

Original thought, original artistic expression is by its very nature questioning, irreverent, iconoclastic.

I went to grad school because I wanted to learn the rules so I would know how to break them. Breaking the rules is saying, 'I'm breaking in, OK? I'm breaking in your very comfortable little house over here, and I'm going to take a room.'

I'm glad I've established this as my zone: 'the taboo breaker.'

What people don't realize is that when you start making things outside of the convention of what is normal or good or 'best practices,' you're also shedding some of the baggage that comes with the concept of what a game 'should' be.

My parents broke many rules, so I guess thinking 'outside the box' has been slowly but surely developing in my family - one generation to the next.

If I'd observed all the rules, I'd never have got anywhere.

Poetry is man's rebellion against being what he is.

Transgressive to me means breaking the rules and sinning. I don't see myself as breaking the rules and sinning. I'm really interested in what it means to be female.

I do like things that are not necessarily a reflection of what is considered the right thing by this culture. Somehow, promoting that status quo I find uninteresting.

Every work of art is an uncommitted crime.

Being vital means knowing the rules and being brave enough to break them.

Pushing the boundaries of what's acceptable - to me, that's something I'm definitely interested in and want to pursue.

I like to step outside of what people's idea of me might be. I suppose that makes me a bit of a rule-breaker. I like to take chances.

I've always found ways to bend the rules.

I don't care about the rules. In fact, if I don't break the rules at least 10 times in every song then I'm not doing my job properly.

It's very hard to transgress; we have the furniture of transgression without the imagery and iconography to actually do it.

I guess I should say I like to do things that people say you can't do.

Everything for me was to beat the system, the way I played was to beat the system.

More Than' challenges every norm, refuses to accept the rules as they are, one-size-fits-all, and most importantly, 'More Than' implores you to take massive risk.

Defying genre conventions is instantly a risky move.

I wanted to go so I could learn the rules and conventions in order to break them later on.

Isn't art about breaking rules, about challenging existing systems, isn't it about discovering meaning in things or situations before others see anything in them??