Starsmith Quotes

I always want to do - take everything and take it to the next step. I don't want to just keep doing something the same ol' thing. Obviously, I could have wrote 'Mother' 20 times and made tons of money and be playing gigantic arenas and whatever, but that's not really what I want to do.

From the very beginning, I've always just wanted to do something I've never done before. I'm still just trying to be on that path. It's all about working with filmmakers that you believe in.

I feel every day that everything I create - everything I do - I want it to be a risk.

With my own music, I try to get away from things that are familiar and things that would be easy for me to go to.

I’m an artist who is always looking for what is possible. I’m always looking to extend the boundaries.

An artist should be taking risks. That's the whole idea of being an artist.

As an actor, I still have to remind myself of daring to let go and not to repeat myself.

It's fun to be on the edge. I think you do your best work when you take chances, when you're not safe, when you're not in the middle of the road, at least for me, anyway.

I'm always drawn to writing things that feel like uncharted territory.

I'm not an artist, and I want to take risks, and when the possibility of failure occurs, it's because the idea is all exciting or interesting as a high wire act, and sometimes you've got to fall off, just by virtue of the fact that you're constantly trying to evolve and do new things.

You need to get outside of your comfort zone to write songs that are interesting, songs that are compelling, songs that are different from what other people are writing.

Honestly, as a director, at least for me, if I start doing the same thing over and over again, I'm going to get bored really quickly.

We stand for creativity and pushing boundaries and having fun with one's music.

The worst thing you can do as an artist is to repeat yourself.

I tend to just do whatever I want on an album and try to make it work. I'm just adventurous. It's most exciting to be at the edge of your abilities. I want to see how far I can push things.

Well, every movie is an experiment. And the only way you can grow at what you're doing is to take chances. You can't try to stick with what worked last time.

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

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.

Every time I get in the studio, I feel like I wanna have some fun. My fun is not doing the easy work. My fun is doing what's me.

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

I always wanted to be really experimental.

Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.

It's always been very important to me to try to do projects which are breaking new ground.

More or less, I am always saying, 'Let's do what has not been done.'

It would have been easy to try to make 'Opus Eponymous II' and just stick with a routine. But it just felt like, if this is going to go anywhere, we need to take big steps every time.