Oneohtrix Point Never Quotes

Most of the time, I do what I'm offered, but after I worked for it. I think I try much harder for the things that scare me and inspire me. The things that scare and inspire you are things that are different from what you did before.

I like the possibility of failure. I don't want to be in a comfortable zone.

My direction as a person working in film has been to never get comfortable with anything I was doing. At the time that I decided to do action films, people were telling me, "Well, you can't do it. You're not that type. It's not going to work." And so obviously that made me think, "Well, that's not comfortable. Maybe I should try it. What can I do with it?" So I did that, and I'm glad I did it. I'll probably do it again, and I did other kinds of things that seemed like challenges for me, because I like being on the high wire.

The biggest risk I've ever taken is going on American Idol and trying to be myself. I wasn't going to try too hard to conform, and I knew that it could possibly not work out.

I wanted each of my books to be very different from the others, each to be special and uncategorizable, and I knew I could only do that a few times before I was in danger of repeating myself.

I think goals should never be easy, they should force you to work, even if they are uncomfortable at the time.

To be a poet is as serious, long-term and natural as the effort to be the best human you can be. To express something well is not a question of having a top-class education and understanding poetic forms: rather, it's a question of paying attention.

Risk is essential. There is not growth of inspiration in staying within what is safe and comfortable. Once you find out what you do best, why not try something else?

If you're playing within your capability, what's the point? If you're not pushing your own technique to its own limits with the risk that it might just crumble at any moment, then you're not really doing your job.

I do tend to apply myself to projects that make me uncomfortable because usually when that happens I try to find a way of existing in the project that is more creative.

I don't want to be boring. But that's not always easy.

I'd hate it if everyone in the world liked me, my music and what I wore. It'd make it boring, and I wouldn't have anything to work towards. It's not to everyone's taste, but I can only be me.

I don't really feel comfortable unless I'm slightly uncomfortable. I don't want to play myself all the time.

Be your own artist, and always be confident in what you're doing. If you're not going to be confident, you might as well not be doing it.

My work is of me; it's not me. I want it to be far more extraordinary than I am.

I never said to be like me, I say to be like you and make a difference.

I pay for what I call eccentricity and my will to evolve.

I really do believe that if you don't challenge yourself and risk failing, that it's not interesting.

Unless a man undertakes more than he possibly can do, he will never do all he can do.

People who cannot invent and reinvent themselves must be content with borrowed postures, secondhand ideas, fitting in instead of standing out.

What I like best is the challenge of learning something I didn't know how to do, going beyond my comfort level.

I'll never be August Wilson - but what I can be is more of myself.

What my father especially taught me was to not always take the safe road, the easy road. If you are going to do good work, you have to risk failing badly.

I could live my whole life being so comfortable doing things I've already worked hard to not be nervous at, or I could continue to push the envelope and make myself uncomfortable and learn and see what I'm capable of, and acting is definitely that.

I am my own experiment. I am my own work of art.