Alan Vega Quotes

I always naturally want to change things up if I possibly can. I never want to write a sequel to a book. I don't want to go back over things. I don't want to adapt my own books for the screen. That's something that's important to me, the keeping it fresh.

I don't want to come in and do something that's been done before. You know, for me, it's not that I wouldn't come in and do a sequel to something, but it's only if I can bring something new to the table and I'm not following an extremely strict path.

'Bloodshot,' for me, was unlike anything I'd ever done before, which was really the draw of it. In addition to trying to reconnect with my earlier work, I also wanted to try to do something that was completely new and different.

I always try to do something different. I don't think I've made the same record over and over.

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

I think that the idea of having a different approach to every single one of my albums is so exciting to me. I never want to make the same record twice. Why do it? What's the point?

I always wanted to do something different with each film. So I guess that means that I wanted to not repeat myself. There has to be some kind of a new element in each project that I take up.

No, I would never in a million years compare anything we've done to anything we've previously done. I don't believe in it - I think it's bad.

I'm very conscious of the idea of trying to each time present something that I haven't presented before. It's a challenge to me to find something new, to find something innovative, but it's also very exciting.

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.

Don't just rehash what came before. Find new things to do with it, in your unique voice.

I always find music guys writing about love. Think of something else for a change. I'm sorry, but it's been done, and it does work and it's good and all that, but I think something else would be nice.

When you make new musicals, you have the great freedom and the great burden that it can be changed.

I always tend to favor the newer idea.

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

What makes our world so fascinating is that continuously there are novel and creative ideas spurring people to leave old ways and try something new.

All I know is, I'm trying to do things that are a little different whenever I can.

I like to reinvent with each project, in any which way possible.

We do worry that we might be making something we've made before. It's important that we make something we've never made before.

If something works, you shouldn't do it again. We want to do something that is new, original - something where there's a good chance of failure.

I think of each record as different and not having very much in common with what went before or what comes next.

I think it's been obvious from the beginning that my projects are not going to be something that people already have in mind. You can't be thinking about such things when you create something.

I think rappers spend a lot of time trying to figure out what is new. 'How can I say this in a way that no one has ever said it before?'

If you don't take a risk then what's the point. We can't keep making films in the same space.

Really, I get inspired by just switching projects and instrumentation and things like that - that creative part of just being different every time is really what inspires me.