Quotes About Spontaneity

Phish is such a good band; they just make stuff up as a jam band.

If you think you're going to create an unposed photograph, think again. There is no such thing.

My photography is the result of being there at the right moment.

Photography is an accident.

I just make up lyrics off the top of my head. A lot of times, there's a phrase I really like, and I kind of build the song around that.

I have a phrase I say: 'What the damn?' It's my favorite. It just came to me one day.

I sit down and create atmospheres, start playing guitar or piano and just sing whatever comes out of my mouth.

Sometimes it works. Sometimes I feel like playing 'Hospital'. Sometimes I feel like playing 'Pablo Picasso'. I've been playing a lot lately. I do it as long as I feel like it.

You just pick up a chord, go twang, and you're got music.

I've got lots of good friends. I could have affairs. I can read a book all night, put the cat on the end of the bed. I can pick up my passport and go to France. I don't have to ask anybody.

We just did a few takes of a song and just picked the best one. It was real organic and genuine.

I don't want a pickle, just want to ride on my motorsickle.

Sometimes on my show, I just play something out of the blue, and the band picks up on it.

I'm not going to be very picky. If something comes to me and I want to do it, I'll do it.

A really good picture looks as if it's happened at once. It's an immediate image.

My wife Mariana is a good photographer too and, like me, she just picks up a camera and takes a picture when she sees something, rather than looking too deeply into it.

When you are little, you will draw pictures for no reason.

Usually I like to improvise. Sometimes, depending on the nature of the piece, I like to improvise because I think it brings certain freshness and a reality to it, as long as it doesn't go too far out of the box.

I have three pieces of advice I want you to remember: Don't ever grow up. Don't become a bore. Don't let The Man get to you.

I would never pigeon hole myself stylistically because I just don't know what I am going to want to do next.

I have complete freedom, and there's no way to get pigeonholed or bored. What could be better than that?

I miss that London thing of walking outside and bumping into mates and going, 'Do you want to get a pint?'

We are all born artists. If you have kids, you know what I mean. Almost everything kids do is art. They draw with crayons on the wall.

Leave me in a room with some crayons and I'll draw on the wall.