Quotes About Spontaneity

I used to take 'Visions of Cody' by Jack Kerouac on tour all the time. I don't really love Kerouac, but that book, you could just open at any page and find something incredible for that day.

Besides finding a great place to stay, it's important for me to find at least one cultural destination to visit, other than that, I don't like to plan too much. I like to suss out the situation when I get on the ground and then go!

In my 20s, I visited Vegas quite frequently, and I still like to get out there when the opportunity presents itself.

I feel preparation is a vital part of music as without it, the spontaneity goes haywire.

I feel like I'm on crutches when I have to go by the dialogue sheet. I want the artiste's natural, spontaneous reaction and vocabulary so that it adds a genuine flavor to the scene without which the sequence becomes entirely cinematic.

Although there was a screenplay, the actors never knew what questions I was going to ask them, and all of my character's voice-over narration and scenes were added after the fact.

To me, songs come of their own volition - and with an open-ended philosophy.

I would be doing anything to avoid a 9-5 job and high heels. Lifeguard, beach volleyball player, whatever.

The only reason that it takes me seven years to do stuff is because I just don't really have a plan.

If I'm in the shower sometimes I'll blurt out some lyrics to whatever song's in my head that day. It's a lot of Migos and Drake.

I'm always in awe of improvisers that make something out of complete nothing.

If I'm really excited about a scene, I used to wait to write it, and now I'll just write it. When you do that, all sorts of awesome things can happen from just giving in and writing that scene you're excited about.

Me? I'm going to grow backwards and be a kid again.

I always keep a ball in the car. You never know.

Our shows are more fun when there aren't barriers.

You have to create the show anew, and find it anew, on a nightly basis.

You know, we never really know what we're going to write next. Which is part of the excitement when we go in and do a new album. No battle plan, we just go in and do it and what comes out, comes out.

I used to write things out beforehand. But sometimes it backfires.

I never know when I am being funny, and the other way too. I don't think you can think about that. I don't think you can try to be funny. Some people are just funny.

Street football means you don't fear no one because you have nothing to lose and you are just being yourself.

Because they were young. Because one is young only once in a life lived only once. Because recklessness is the only fist to throw at nothingness. How much aliveness can one bear?

Es muy perjudicial tratar de empujarnos a sentir cosas que no sentimos, actuar como si las sintiéramos. Porque los sentimientos no se eligen, suceden.

Poetry is given to the poet. I don't think a poet can sit down at will and write. If he does, nothing worthwhile can come of it.

give a New York friend a panic attack, turn up unannounced on a Wednesday and suggest going for a drink. It is easier to organize five guys to raise a flag on Iwo Jima than to get mates out for movie and dinner. Surprise parties are such fun, but require e-mail "save the date" warnings. And everyone needs to know how to dress.