Quotes About Artistry

A place of freedom is the best place to have the most creativity.

Without creativity, I'd be just 'blah blah blah.'

When I'm in the studio, I'm looking for creativity I haven't matched yet, a feeling I haven't felt. It's a high.

I worked on 'Cadillactica' with the mind to not sample as much and focus on creativity.

I've got that Beethoven energy, that Stravinsky energy. And it's all a gift from the Creator.

I think of myself as a creator, and I think that will always shine through in any medium that I decide to pick up. If you're creative and you're an artist, you could be doing anything and that creativity will shine.

We call ourselves creators and we just copy.

Composers are very individual creatures.

All talent needs is credibility and the freedom to create. That is all. That's what will make the talent happy, that's what makes me happy to this day.

I was worried that acting would somehow ruin any credibility I had as a musician.

You don't have to be singing songs about angst and pain to be credible.

So I think it was to Bryan's credit that he was able to let go of some of those things because you create these scenes and you think you become creative, even I, acting things, you become very creatively taken by it.

Creed's sound is my sound.

The TekLife crew are super dope.

It's quite hard not to cringe at your own music; you're always a bit annoyed at some parts of it.

If I am going to be afraid of the criticisms that my films get, I am never going to make films.

I don't think the critics could understand what we were doing.

When you're doing a film, it's your film and it's, you know, your blood and - is in it along with everybody else's, and it's the greatest picture ever made when you're shooting it. It's only after the critics and then the public say you were wrong that you realize that you were wrong.

I get a lot of flack from critics that my comedies are all over the place, my dramas are all over the place, they're schizophrenic - as if I don't know that!

The Eagles and the critics were not the best of friends.

The critics are not writers - they're not a part of the creative process; therefore, they should not influence how I go about doing my next bit of work.

There are places where writing is acting and acting is writing. I'm not so interested in the divisions. I'm interested in the way things cross over.

I think every artist strives for a record that crosses all energy, lines, boundaries or languages or barriers.

I think they want to keep it separate, but I've never been a crossover artist for some reason.