Live out of your imagination, not your history
My advice to new artists is to not follow a trend, but to start one. By that, I mean to not be tempted to do what business people might suggest to you, to jump on the bandwagon, but to be strong.
You have to think outside the box.
You have to just go with your imagination, where your instinct takes you.
Move fast and break things. Unless you are breaking stuff, you are not moving fast enough.
Don't be a blueprint. Be an original.
Always go with your passions. Never ask yourself if it's realistic or not.
I have this natural want to... when things sound very easy and straightforward, something inside me always makes me want to take a left turn. If it comes to me and it's too simple, there has to be a more complicated route. I will complicate things like that at times.
Everything's so, like, saturated nowadays. So if you wanna, like, make an impact, you gotta do something different. Do something new.
Break the rules, stand apart, ignore your head, and follow your heart.
Take risks. Ask big questions. Don't be afraid to make mistakes; if you don't make mistakes, you're not reaching far enough.
Eschew the ordinary, disdain the commonplace
We only live once, so I want to think big.
Continue to surprise those who would put you in a neat demographic. Be insistently curious.
If you want success, be unique.
If an expert says it can't be done, get another expert.
I think if more people actually pursued what they loved, we'd have a lot more innovation and creativity.
When the opportunity is there, you have to let your creative juices start flowing and reach and grab for it.
I don't accept what people say. I took something to be copied recently, to be enlarged and blown up, and they said it couldn't be done, and I went somewhere five minutes away, and they did it.
The only way that you can find any semblance of a rule, or make any semblance of your own rule, is to tear up the rulebook. Throw it out, burn it, throw it away, and make your own rules.
I have to be more universal than my projects, but no less innovative.
Defy the limitations people put on you.
With your imagination, you can go anywhere or do anything, anything is possible.
Have a vision. It is the ability to see the invisible. If you can see the invisible, you can achieve the impossible.
I want to give the audience the whole package, and for me, the whole package is to give them something fresh as well. It's not as much fun resting on your laurels.
