Josh Lucas Quotes

The spirit around leaving New York, for me, was that I just felt I needed to do something really outside of my comfort zone. And I really couldn't tell you at the time why I needed to do it. It wasn't like I was running from something dark; it was a desire to shake things up.

I'm in the camp that needs to discover and take risks, sometimes it's with the promise of something special and new, sometimes it's to stay awake, either way it's much more stressful with all the uncertainty but worth the pain in the end.

Nobody knows what they're doing, so don't be afraid to try things.

It's only when you risk failure that you discover things. When you play it safe, you're not expressing the utmost of your human experience.

Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties.

When you do not know what you are doing and what you are doing is the best - that is inspiration.

I like change, like anybody. You don't want to keep doing the same thing because then it gets harder to take chances, be creative, and feel inspired when you're doing the same thing.

You've gotta dive into the abyss if you wanna get anything good. Every record, you've gotta go down in the abyss and hope that you come out of it alive.

I like to open new doors and blaze new trails through the jungle and all that whatnot. What keeps me goin' all these years is changin' it up.

The more I push myself to really live and really experience things and step outside of my comfort zone, the more the songs are allowed to flow.

It took the madmen of yesterday for us to be able to act with extreme clarity today. I want to be one of those madmen. We must dare to invent the future.

The best thing for an actor is to try it his way. The way they do it may not work, but it may inspire me to try something else.

The comfort zone is the great enemy to creativity; moving beyond it necessitates intuition, which in turn configures new perspectives and conquers fears.

Often, the fact that I haven't done something as a writer is all the reason I need to try it.

Art is lunging forward without certainty about where you are going or how to get there, being open to and dependent on what luck, the paint, the typo, the dissonance, give you. Without art you're stuck with yourself as you are and life as you think life is.

I always want to keep challenging myself to do something that I don't even have the foresight to know what it's going to be.

I believe if you are not rediscovering yourself and pushing boundaries, then you are not alive.

You're always reinventing yourself and looking for what's new and what you haven't done before.

I believe that the constant possibility of failure or possibility of decision-making feeds your creativity.

You have to be slightly uncomfortable with what you're doing, and you have to be able to try to find moments of newness.

With innovation, there is always risk.

The child in me wanted to try out new things and do something different.

Sometimes you're gonna jump off a cliff and land flat on your face. Then you just get up and go again. But sometimes you dive off the cliff and start soaring with the eagles, and that's when you find new music, places that you've never been before.

Today's 'best practices' lead to dead ends; the best paths are new and untried.

So long as your desire to explore is greater than your desire to not screw up, you're on the right track.