Caroline Dhavernas Quotes

If you're not prepared to be wrong, you'll never come up with anything original.

I'm an artist, and I like the risk - I'm not in it for the sure things.

I take chances. I don't limit myself. I don't think anybody who listens to Boston would have predicted hearing a female rapper on the beginning of the song 'Sail Away.' But that's what fit.

I like surprising myself. I don't want to do the norm, do what I'm always known to do, write how I like to write.

Since I was in my early twenties, at ABC, I was always only interested in things that were not already being done.

Whenever people ask where I get my sick and twisted ideas from, I reply, 'Just open your eyes.'

I like doing things that are different, unexpected, and where I feel that either the role feels like a natural fit for me or it's a really big swing that I don't know if I'm going to connect on.

Don't hold back in your writing. Take risks. Go ahead and tackle that crazy idea that you think will never fly, because that may be the one that makes you stand out from the crowd. Keep pushing the envelope.

I love to get to that place where I don't know what kind of music I'm doing; I don't know if it's any good. I don't know if it's anything. It's a big question mark. The idea is to have interesting results. That's my bottom line.

There's a way of playing safe, there's a way of using tricks and there's the way I like to play which is dangerously where you're going to take a chance on making mistakes in order to create something you haven't created before.

Almost all new ideas have a certain aspect of foolishness when they are first produced.

If people never did silly things nothing intelligent would ever get done.

An essential aspect of creativity is not being afraid to fail

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.

I would like to try to never do the same thing twice, and fail huge sometimes.

I guess I still have this motto: 'What else can I get away with?' And unpredictability in film - that's the hardest thing there is.

Give the composer time to experiment, time to try out ideas. Also, the time to fail. When the composer has very little time, the temptation is to reach for stock ideas - ideas they know will work and have worked in the past.

Business people want things to be safe but that's rubbish to me. In music nothing should be safe.

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

One of the things with the second record, a word I held close to my chest was 'brave.' To take chances to go outside the box and explore. To continue to toss off any expectation that our fans or anyone else might have of us, to just tap into who I am as a writer and artist and really just operate within that freedom of creation.

I'm not afraid to have a really weird idea or, you know, take a really bad guitar solo.

Innovation, creativity, and lunacy goes hand in hand.

The very basis of creative work is irreverence! The very basis of creative work is bold experimentation. There has never been a creator of lasting importance who has not also been an innovator.

As an actor, I still have to remind myself of daring to let go and not to repeat myself.

Genius is often called crazy, but crazy is never called genius. So you just have to put out the work and let the chips fall where they may.