Johnny Christ Quotes

I just like blending all the genres together but blending them up in a good way. I try to be as free as I can with it.

Maybe the biggest thing that I've learned musically is that anything is possible. Things can work when maybe they don't seem like they can.

I just like music all the way around the board. I can't stick to one thing - I've got to move around.

I like writing different types of music. I don't like being stuck into one thing.

But I've always liked to be the kind of drummer and musician who likes to go outside of what's expected of me, and I've always been able to do more than you necessarily hear with every band I've ever played in.

I don't want to be stuck to any specific genre.

Especially with Fantomas, i'm just trying to stretch out what the band can do. Figuring out, really, on the job or on recordings, what I can or can't get away with.

If I start playing by the rules, I will inhibit myself of the possibilities that lie beyond. I don't like to be framed or given borders to operate in or curtail my thought process and as a writer it's not only my choice but also my need to go beyond the given framework.

And I'm interested in writing music that takes risks. My point is that maybe the term EDM is pinned on me and my buddies, but maybe it'll be less so if I experiment.

It's important to immerse myself in one thing at a time to do it well, but I could never do one thing only. I will always be a poet and a singer, because I'm interested in bending genres and pushing boundaries of what is considered a poem, what is considered a song.

I try not to put myself in a box, so I'll write with anybody who wants to. I don't put limitations on my co-writes.

I feel my voice can fit in many things so it's very interesting to combine things and music styles.

The goal is never be a copycat of ourselves. It's more along the lines of taking risks in our music.

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

I'm disregarding all the rules I've seen as people approach writing music. I'm trying to break them.

I don't want to limit myself to any genre or language or a type. I want to always surprise the audience and, hence, keep raising the bar for myself.

If you approach an opera as though it were something that always went a certain way, that's what you get. I approach an opera as though I didn't know it.

I'm gonna play this game the way I want to. It might be serious, it might be a comedy, it might be a dramedy, it might be variety, it might be a talk show, whatever. There's no box.

I try not to get trapped in any one musical or visual style at all.

I take chances. I don't limit myself. I don't think anybody who listens to Boston would have predicted hearing a female rapper on the beginning of the song 'Sail Away.' But that's what fit.

I don't ever try to make a song better than my last song. I just try to make it different from my last one.

I've always done very 'composed' music and worked-out solos. But sometimes it's fun not knowing where you're going.

I think that, with anything creative, you should have the freedom to experiment, and that experimentation means not feeling totally responsible for how other people perceive it.

I like to think of my style as pretty versatile. And I'd like whatever I record to reflect that to be mostly genre - to be just something that people want to listen on to see what I'm going to come up with next. That's the kind of music I'm into.

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