Nate Berkus Quotes

It's not set in stone. I like to keep it rolling and changing, and so I am like, "Great, I get to remake my song."

If there's room to make a record every year, and it sounds nothing like the old one, I might do that. It's easy to get in and have fun. To me, if it feels right, that's all that needs to be done.

I love mishmash and the chaos of art forms.

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.

Once you have your basics down, you can start breaking the rules.

I want to do weird things and big budget things and no budget things. I don't have a five-year plan.

I just wanted to make something in the world and worry about the rest of it later and not get too caught up in rules.

To hell with the rules. If it sounds right, then it is.

[In making music] it's nice to not have a goal, to not have a set format. It's very liberating to just get out of your comfort zone and be in a new space.

Learn all the rules... then break them.

Art flourishes where there is a sense of adventure, a sense of nothing having been done before, of complete freedom to experiment.

While you're making the film and working with the actors, if you want to have a little room to breathe and experiment and play, it grows, and you want that to happen. It's not enough to just shoot the script. You've gotta come up with new inspiration, as you shoot it. There's gotta be room for that and time for that, so it grows.

I'd rather experiment than follow the same formula. I'm a curious person. It's gotten me into trouble, but I say, 'Why not? Let's try it.'

Some song ideas absolutely require a kind of rigid discipline, and others require absolute chaotic abandon. The form is only valid if you know how to un-form it. I don't mean to sound like an intellectual here!

When I do a take, I very often try things that I haven't planned to try to see if I can pull it off.

You can't buy something which does not exist. In a way, let's make things exist and then judge later. Don't cancel the process of creativity too early; let it flow.

Photography is still a very new medium and everything must be tried and dare.

You just keep playing. If someone special comes along and organizes it in a new way, then you'll have another approach and everybody will jump on it to try to learn.

The apparatus has to serve our improbability and improvisation. Being good and playing the songs is not enough.

I don't really have one style; I just choose what I like best each time.

I'd rather play here in this small bar and just do a good show. Because it's fun and there's no expectations, it's encouragement to be different, do something new.

I mix everything up. A museum curator once said to me that there is a great jazz component to the way I do things because good jazz is improvisation and draws elements from all different cultures. And that's the way I do everything - the way I dress and decorate.

I'm playing all the right notes, but not necessarily in the right order.

I've always been sort of addicted to genre-jumping. I've never been in the mood to do the same thing I did last time. Hence, me going from 'Big Love' to romantic comedy, to period film... I can't sit still.

Usually I like to improvise. Sometimes, depending on the nature of the piece, I like to improvise because I think it brings certain freshness and a reality to it, as long as it doesn't go too far out of the box.