Riley Keough Quotes

I can be a little messy and wild and carefree with my creativity as a solo artist. In a group, there's a certain structure, and everyone has a part to play, and being a solo artist, I can do as I please.

I would say for the young: Don't be straight jacketed by ideology. Don't be driven by a structure of ideas.

If you think too much about playing an icon, it will immobilize you. You have to treat it like a fresh character. Sure, there are guidelines so that you don't upset people, but you have to find your own way.

As free and crazy as we want to be, and how much we want to make the world a canvas, there's also a part of us that doesn't want to make any mark.

I'm not a tabula rasa type. In some ways, the more constraints I have, the work is more interesting to me.

You don't need a framework. You need a painting, not a frame.

I'm just an entertainer, man. I don't like to pigeonhole myself to anything. I love to do it all.

It's like, you can't have any fun, and if you do have fun, if you do your own thing, you're considered crazy and should be in a mental institution. Now, that's what I find creepy. I'm eccentric. I am not messed up.

They teach you there's a boundary line to music. But, man, there's no boundary line to art.

Any director or writer or artist has the right to do what they want to do - freedom of expression is something I celebrate.

The true self seeks release, not constraint. It doesn't want to be corseted in a sonnet or made to learn a system of musical notations. It wants liberation, which is why very often it fastens on the novel, for the novel seems spacious, undefined, free.

I like to think that we've got a plan, so let's stick to it. That said, once we've stuck to it, we're allowed as much improvisation as anyone cares to indulge themselves in.

I was seen in earlier years by family members and people of authority as somebody wasting his time. I had trouble with the restrictions of conformity. It made me edgy.

There's a lot of creative freedom. Acting is a whole boatload of fun, but I prefer to do it on my own terms.

Within reason, I can write what I like and spend as long doing it as is necessary. That is a luxury beyond price.

In art, anything goes, and if it goes, it goes.

The minute you succumb to outside pressure, you cease to be creative.

Well, yeah, sometimes I get a little too creative.

It's really easy to project this whole ideology of what being an artiste is, and I'm just not down with intellectualizing it. I just think, if you feel like doing something, then do it.

I wouldn't call my work Modernist. I would rust if I try to think about labels. I'd feel like the Tin Man in 'The Wizard of Oz.'

My art is not limited to the songs I create but also to the reaction it creates. I like to sit back and look at the whole thing as if it's a tornado that I'm controlling. It's creating chaos. When you create chaos, ideas are turned upside down, and everybody looks at things in a different way.

I think the idea of art kills creativity.

Rules and models destroy genius and art.

I think all art is about control - the encounter between control and the uncontrollable.

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.