Tom Scholz Quotes

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.

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.

I think I wanted my solo debut to be very unpredictable.

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

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

I think one of the things about creativity is not to be afraid of saying the wrong thing.

The wonderful thing about Jazz is its willingness to take chances.

You can't buy something which does not exist. In a way, let's make things exist and then judge later. Don't cancel the process of creativity too early; let it flow.

I never was the battle rapper. That was never my thing. I always felt like it's enough room for everybody to do their thing. I like bringing new energy, re-inventing the wheel, so to speak, every time I come out.

I love doing collaborations - it's always good to do something that's out the box.

A lot of producers and creative types want to see you be you. Throw something else out there and show them where you would take this part. A lot of them are launching shows for the first time, so they've got a lot riding on this, too, and they want you to be their flight.

I'm definitely a risk-taker with my music.

I'm putting everything on the line in being able to express myself in a different way than rappers normally do. They might say, 'It's rap' or 'It's R&B,' but I'm stepping outside the box and making music for me and making music for the fans to understand me. I'm going the extra distance to be able to come across different.

I think anytime you can do something you haven't seen or done in a film before, it's always a great day as an actor.

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

The best thing for an actor is to try it his way. The way they do it may not work, but it may inspire me to try something else.

I could never be like Hitchcock and do only one kind of movie. Anything that's good is worthwhile.

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 guess I much prefer the path of the contrarian: the guy who goes against the grain a bit. The careers of the people who I admire deeply - like the Coen brothers and Soderbergh - don't repeat themselves, and they make radically different films at times, and I think that's wonderful.

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 like when things are completely absurd. I like when people take risks. I want to be able to challenge myself and challenge the viewer and challenge the back of our mind - the subconscious mind.

It's something I have always tried to do in my career - play outside the box.

I'm trying to do different music, and I'm trying to be out of the box.

The only intention I've ever had creatively, as a musician, is to be as different from myself as possible.