Deadmau5 Quotes

I mean, if you decided to go out today and get you an instrument and do whatever it is that you do, no one can tell you how you're going to do it but when you do it.

Composition is definitely what I'm born to do, and it came last.

I've always been super expressive, and I've always liked to express myself any way I can.

I think I'm just doing me, my music, my shows, and my stories.

I'm kind of lucky in the fact that I can take something that's in my head and write it down, or I can listen to a piece of music that somebody else has written and try to tap into what the music's saying and just kind of follow that, you know. I mean, nine times out of 10, I'm just kind of following where the music takes me.

Everything I make starts very personally.

I'm a musician first, a food-lover second, a dirty mouth with feet, and a girl last time I checked.

I found a certain kind of music congenial to me; it never occurred to me to write music that was academically acceptable.

When I was 13, I asked for a guitar. And that's how I really started explaining my point of view.

I can rap in a London accent, make weird faces, wear spandex, wigs, and black lipstick. I can be more creative than the average male rapper.

I've just always written songs in a style that appeal to me personally.

Making art is different for everyone.

Your limitations create your sound.

I'm always gonna be all over my CD the most, of course. My talent is my talent. I ain't really tripping off no ego; I just like to make good music with good people.

I never wanted to be that fad type of artist. When I looked up to artists, watching TV, I wanted to see somebody. I wanted to touch that person. I wanted to sound like them. I wanted to move like them. That' s what I want my fans to do. So that's why, everything that I do, the music I make, how I dress, it's all based off my lifestyle.

I want to sing because I want to sing.

I think it's important to really press on with the song writing and just go with it. There's no code, there's no craft... it's just let yourself shine through your music. If it's meant to be loved and heard, it'll happen.

I'm the artist when I'm doing music that I am when I'm acting. I'm everything.

There's no rule that says you have to make records constantly, like clockwork, to continue being who you are.

I'd love to claim the title of 'songwriter' or 'intellectual,' but the truth is that anything that I ever learned how to do in conjunction with music was purely so that I would have a platform to sing from.

Acting and making music are quite complementary. Acting relies on someone else's writing and direction; writing music or lyrics doesn't. But they are both creative and personal in completely different ways.

I love acting it's apart of me and I try to put a little bit of myself in each of my roles.

A rapper is about being completely true to yourself. Being an actor is about changing who you are.

I was trying to establish an identity in music, and black and white had nothing to do with it.

People ask, like, 'How are you going to incorporate what you do onstage into everything else?' I'm not too worried about that. Whether it's theater or a TV show idea, or an animated thing or, I don't know, an animated screensaver. I really just want to keep creating things. And I've always been able to do that.