I’m really a scientist. I follow recipes exactly—until I decide not to.
Creative - Creativity Quotes
I think you don’t get ideas by sitting at home and talking to yourself. I think you get ideas by getting out there.
I tried to set myself up for not being put in a box. Well, how do you do that? First of all, nothing can sound alike in what you’re doing.
If you’re worried about offending people and constantly thinking of that, you are not going to be very creative.
You gotta be a little bit innovative these days—especially because like 20,000 new songs come out every day on streamers.
I draw on the social sciences a great deal. I get a lot of ideas from them, particularly from anthropology. When I create another planet, another world, with a society on it, I try to hint at the complexity of the society I’m creating, instead of just referring to an empire or something like that.
I put on my favorite music in my studio and paint. I pick up the brush, pick a color, put color on the canvas, answer it with another color and another, like musical improvisation. Suddenly, I have a painting. I know colors like some people know a melody. And the tunes of my favorite musicians […]
I still love to rap. It’s always been the most important thing to me. I still have fun writing.
I tend to gravitate towards stuff that’s really hard. I like a situation that you find yourself in where you really don’t know what you’re doing. I find it terrifying and thrilling in equal measures. What comes out of it often surprises me, because I didn’t know I was capable of doing it.
I’ve always steered clear of situations that involved spontaneous music in an intimate setting. It always sort of terrified me, because I’m really a “studio guy”. I work really hard to achieve the sound and performances that I get. I’m not a spontaneous, song-and-dance guy who can sit down at a piano and jam.
