We have to take risks with art. If we don't, it all becomes a bit boring.
If you want to be inventive, you have to be willing to fail.
To make something really great and different and interesting means taking risks and following these ideas in your head.
In writing, I've found, playing it safe and familiar is no way to energize anybody.
Creative people who can't help but explore other mental territories are at greater risk, just as someone who climbs a mountain is more at risk than someone who just walks along a village lane.
An essential element of any art is risk. If you don't take a risk then how are you going to make something really beautiful, that hasn't been seen before?
I feel every day that everything I create - everything I do - I want it to be a risk. I think when you take the big swings - and I've done plenty of big swings that I was told were never going to work - those are always the things that break through.
One of my biggest heroes and people I was fortunate enough to be around is David Bowie. I look at his career, and he always had the balls to break things that weren't broken, to step away from something and try something new, at risk of failing.
If no one ever took risks, Michaelangelo would have painted the Sistine floor.
