Ross Lynch Quotes

Joining Modest Mouse was just consistent with what I used to do as a teenager: I followed where I thought I would make some interesting music.

I don't feel like I'm on a mission. I'm trying to play music that I like to play and like to listen to.

As a result, I had to get my own playground which was my band Colours. This band lasted for about eight years and then the air was out of it and it was time to finish.

I like to have a lot of different creative outlets.

The music always takes us to different places. We'll just continue to play and see what doors open from there.

That's what I care about most. That more people are making and more people feel like they are creative.

The point is to almost be child-minded, like you're discovering music for the first time, every time you play.

The more I can stay on the creative side, the happier I am.

Deeper' feels like we did when we made the first few albums. It's got that excitement. It felt like a voyage of discovery.

We never sit down before we start making a record and talk about this new sonic palette that we are going to try to explore. We always let the record kind of reveal itself to us over time.

The very fact that I've had those established me to continue on to do new music and new projects.

I feel lucky that I've been able to make a living from painting any idea that comes into my head.

I think there's a deep impulse in most humans to do creative stuff, whether that's music or art, photography or writing. Most people at some point in their life say they want to do something creative - they want to be an actor, a director, a writer, a poet, a painter or whatever.

Being on the road is a great habitat for creating new music because there's so many different experiences.

Everything I record, I just try to sound like me and come up with songs that suit what I do, and then just go for it.

I love hip-hop and soul, but I desperately want to challenge it and see what I can bring to it.

I've never really seen too much difference between writing or making visual art or designing furniture or clothing. It's still my brain - I'm just using different parts of it for different things.

To me, music shouldn't be ego-driven. When you go out on stage and play songs, it is. But when you're sitting in a room, writing songs, it's a completely different process. It's a completely different place. It's a creative place, a musical place. It has nothing to do with who likes what.

It's cool to have instruments lying around because they give you different ideas.

I play guitar quite a bit, because I'm always in search of something. I don't play to jam, but because I'm fishing. I'm looking for something, that I hope you can never find. If I do find it, I'm afraid I won't have a need to do this any more.

Everyone wants to get into soundtracks. Everyone wants to do songs here and there. But, I think they want it for different reasons. I think I'm just tumbling through my life, enjoying playing with everybody.

The way that I've always gone about making music, the rule of thumb, has just been to make what I love.

I don't tend to set out on huge world domination goals or have anything in mind. I just like to play. I like to gig a lot; I like to write music.

When I write, I don't have any expectation of what kind of song it will become or who it might reach.

I think every artist subconsciously wants to evolve themselves. Sometimes they get stuck in ruts because of pop culture, peer pressure, stuff like that. But what excites me most is exploring my own musical insights and expanding upon them.