Quotes About Evolution

I don't make demos. I don't have the interest or the energy or the time. Demos are something you do in the early stages of your career, but when you get going, you just go in and record the song.

The image, like the voice, came in stages. I never sat down with anyone and said, 'Let's design an image.'

There are things that happen, at different times in your life. You go through natural changes in life, when you reach your 30s, mid-30s and 40s, and you go through these different stages.

'Avatar' is staggering. It's seismic. Evolutionarily speaking, it is cladogenesis in a thunderclap.

I had, early in life, a love for staging, but it is fast dying out. Nine hours over a rough road are enough to root out the most passionate love of that kind.

It's funny because as a composer, you want to hear your songs live on. I think a lot of times people will create a song and it becomes stagnant or something that they're no longer interested in playing, and they leave it alone.

The moment you get comfortable is the moment you get stagnant, so I want to make sure I keep evolving.

You have to grow. I can't be the same person I was at 18; otherwise, I'd be stagnant.

People like things that change. They don't like stagnant things.

When I listen to and play the songs from 'Narrow Stairs' now, that record feels like a record where we had established a style that arguably was more our own than it was in the beginning. Going into that record, I felt a lot more confident in my songwriting. It was a fairly prolific time for me.

So I think that if I do feel more freedom right now in my career, it's not so much because I have less at stake but more a sense that I've learned more.

If you do the same thing over and over again, then you will definitely get stale and jaded like most actors do.

I don't want to get stale. I'm always interested in new things.

I think when artists close their ears to any music, when they won't do anything besides country music or rock music, they get stale.

Leaving your old record label doesn't have to be a stall in your career. It's like new life being breathed into it.

You're always trying to do something that, on one hand, honors all those stories, that is still in some way the same character that Stan Lee and Jack Kirby were doing back in the sixties. But, at the same time, you want to be able to tell new stories and not just rehash what's come before.

There were a lot of people who were a little afraid of the rage or blaming stance I was taking, and find what I am doing now more refreshing.

Although personally I am quite content with existing explosives, I feel we must not stand in the path of improvement.

I can't stand comparisons to the past. It doesn't matter what we did in previous seasons.

Even IBM can't stand in the way of progress... for more than a decade.

In both our personal and professional lives, there are times when reality dictates that we must stand up and 'end' something. Either its time has passed, its season is over, or worse, continuing it would be destructive in some way.

I'm an entertainer first. But I do as a stand up comedian, the way for me to evolve is to make a difference, to make people laugh and learn and do something different. Because there's too many comedians out there just making people laugh. And anybody can do that.

I did stand-up comedy for seventeen years. I need to explore other things.

Improv seemed to replace stand-up, which was very big before that. Stand-up comedy was real hot in the late '80s and through the '90s.