Quotes About Innovation

When the Walkman was the craze in my generation, I was one of the first to have it.

I wanted to make some of the really important things of my generation and some of the biggest.

I think Bill Finn's one of the geniuses of theatre, and James Lapine's one of the diamonds of my generation. The two together are a joy!

The past is always recycled. I'm just taking what the people I looked up to did and translating it for my generation.

My generation is so intelligent.

This was my motto: 'Don't come up with routine stuff.'

I know who Michael Jackson is, I know who Prince is, I know the Isley Brothers, all that. Still, I got my own thing going with this music.

I don't complain about other people's game - I just create my own.

I never look at other people's work. My mind has to be completely focused on my own illusions.

I have my own thing going on; I don't want to imitate anyone else.

I don't let myself get carried away by my own ideas - I abandon 19 out of 20 of them every day.

I wanted to be an architect. I used to draw houses and buildings and construct buildings on my own.

When I was 8 years old, I made my own encyclopedia of American biography - Johnny Appleseed, Jim Bowie, Davy Crockett, Daniel Boone, Charles Lindbergh, my pantheon of favorite heroes. Then I would write my own things and sew them together and try to make my own book.

I had an awful lot of my soul invested in Atari culture.

I've been working in the music industry since I was 15 years old, and I feel like I've always been ahead of my time.

Of course I live in my time, and I'm really curious. But, at the same time, I don't think it has a direct impact on my work.

If I wanted to make a lot of money with 'Hedwig,' I could have spent all my time on it. But that's boring.

I've learnt a lot about construction and flexibility from my time at Geox.

I really did enjoy my time at Apple - it's a great company, and I really loved building Apple Music.

I have to bring my A-Game 24/7, between creating, draping, and overseeing a myriad of different brands.

I love challenging myself, doing different things, and exploring different areas that I haven't been to or gone to before.

I don't want to limit myself to one genre and want to broaden it, more so in my 30s and 40s.

When I started out, I was Avici with one i. But on MySpace, that name was taken.

Creative freedom and self-expression is what MySpace is all about.