John 5 Quotes

I wouldn't know how to think inside the box because I don't even know where it is. I wouldn't know how to do it any other way.

I like to think limitlessly, and you can't be limitless if you're constantly looking at best practices.

I've got a feeling that with the best coppers - and in fact the best people in any field of work - what sets them apart is a maverick quality. People who are not afraid to bend the rules in order to achieve the universally desired end.

To me, unconventional thinking is approaching a problem and asking, 'Why not? Why can't something be done?' If someone can't give me a good reason why you can't do something, I find a way to do it.

I can see there's a connection between not following normal thinking and doing creative thinking. I wouldn't have had good scientific ideas if I had thought more normally.

If you're trying to do something different, you can't ask someone to help, because they'll want to make it not different.

I really believe that a writer is someone who has trained their mind to misbehave.

We need the disruption of categories that lead us to abandon the difficult, the disagreeable, and the least likely to go very far.

To design something really new and innovative you have to reject reason.

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

If you define eccentricity as creativity, then yes, creativity is eccentricity.

Always listen to experts. They will tell you what can't be done and why. Then do it.

I don't come up with ideas in a test tube; I come up with ideas by breaking test tubes. That's how I've always been.

If I start playing by the rules, I will inhibit myself of the possibilities that lie beyond. I don't like to be framed or given borders to operate in or curtail my thought process and as a writer it's not only my choice but also my need to go beyond the given framework.

It never occurred to me that artists, of all people, have to be reminded that instinct is more important than tradition, but in our industry, people seem to forget that sometimes.

We do things differently. You don't have to worry about being part of a particular genre. You just go for it.

The only people who get paid what they're worth are people who don't follow the instruction book, who create art, who are innovative, who work without a map.

I get a kick out of being an outsider constantly. It allows me to be creative.

Since I know how crazy this business is, I do the opposite of what I see other people doing.

If you're gonna make connections which are innovative... you have to not have the same bag of experiences as everyone else does.

I'm going to try to not let anyone put me in a box, and that certainly applies to the things I do outside of acting.

Perhaps cliche is nothing more than the weight of the past pinning down your mind. In this sense, imaginative freedom is a way of finding the future, though it isn't so easy to do.

It's always good to take an orthogonal view of something. It develops ideas.

Australians have a free spirit and an ability to think outside the box, and that is why I like Australia so much.

I didn't follow the standard rules of bass playing, and many musicians on many different instruments who became noteworthy for their unique or particular style did a very similar thing.