Kristian Bush Quotes

Being an artist is in part an act of rupture.

I spent the first part of my career trying to avoid genre because I felt like genre, in some way, was cliche.

Hip-hop can be limiting and I refuse to accept limits.

We're all so mauled by information, but it's recycled information. We need to shut it out. So, you've got to get bizarre. This is an artist's purpose - to break away from the recycled. Performance art can do that.

I've always questioned the way dancers, myself included, must do the same role year in and year out. It's important for me to be able to say to myself, 'O.K., I don't want to be a prince anymore. I want to put on a leather jockstrap and pose.'

In school, I learned about artists and how they were free to express themselves. I was allergic to conformity, and the lifestyle attracted me. I wanted to express myself in a way that slammed people up against the wall.

Redeeming subjects from cliche is its own pleasure and privilege.

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.

Every actor wants to break out of the box that they put you in and that's where I'm heading, out of the box as fast as I can.

If you are going to break a Law of Art, make the crime interesting.

Sometimes they try to put you inside a box, but I look at my filmography and I've been able to do a lot.

When you have a film that's acclaimed, there's a tendency to go big or get serious or something, but I had an impulse to do the opposite.

That's the job of art: to undo the logic of the world.

I make all types of music. People wanna put me in a little box, and they get mad when I don't stay in there.

I am constantly trying to push my boundaries and break the mould that has been made for leading actresses, and it is such great fun.

I'm seen as a little risky to the industry, I think. All my favorite directors are.

You don't know what the country is ready for unless you're pushing that envelope, and I was told that I couldn't develop 'Will and Grace'.

I hate the idea that I have to represent any particular section of society; I just write good telly, that's all.

You only get one album. You only get one single. You get one shot in music. But I have a million different dreams. Why can't I go out and try to achieve them all? Who are you to say I can't?

I don't want to get too involved in marketing budgets, online promotions and download set-ups because it would be a bit like Gertrude Stein mapping out a TV campaign. I want to sing. I want visibility. I am essentially Al Martino, not Seymour Stein.

The first prerogative of an artist in any medium is to make a fool of himself.

We don't have real hours and we don't have a boss, so artists create rules for themselves that they then break. It's transgressive in such a personal way.

A new medium always has a period when it is struggling inside the confining box of an earlier medium. Creators have to unlearn what they knew before they can see the fresh, uncharted vistas stretching before them.

It's wonderful to be able to have such wildly different projects in your body of work. They don't feel different to me as I'm working on them. It feels like they all share this element of subversiveness and finding the joy in subversiveness.

It's important for any artist - particularly female artists - to feel completely comfortable and to know what they're trying to do.