Quotes About Imagination

The Jungian view of drama would be that it affects all of our imaginations and somehow taps into our hidden, ancient, primordial memories.

And most of my early pictures failed but about one in a 100 somehow looked better than what I saw.

I hear many extra-musical things somehow in Coltrane.

Somehow, when you think about yourself in old age, you think you're going to be this completely different person that you don't even recognize - because you can't imagine it, you know?

When I'm writing fiction, I'm sort of interested by the fact that somehow or other I can have the feeling of actually seeing things through someone else's eyes.

I definitely am afraid of the dark. Somehow, in my mind I can always come up with some horrific stuff to worry about.

I think people imagine that your fame somehow sort of equates with how much you get paid.

I've always felt writing a song was a bit like going on location. That's true in an almost literal sense. Where you are seeps in somehow.

'Billionaire' is basically about, you know, like 'Brewster's Millions.' It's me talking about what would happen if I would somehow manage to become a billionaire. What would I do with the money? Don't get it wrong, I'm far from a billionaire. I think I just made it out the 'thousandaire' category.

There's another horizon out there, one more horizon that you have to make for yourself and let other people discover it, and someone else will take it further on, you know.

That's the kind of movie that I like to make, where there is an invented reality and the audience is going to go someplace where hopefully they've never been before. The details, that's what the world is made of.

Predictability is boring! I want a book to take me someplace I haven't been before, show me sights I haven't seen, make me ponder questions I may not have pondered before.

At least for me, it takes more knowledge to write fiction than nonfiction. At least about someplace that I begin with a lot of ignorance about.

For me, art is not 'brooding.' It comes from someplace that is more fun and that has a kind of electricity to it.

Even though my songs may sound very personal, to me most of them are fiction. It is a great way for me to be able to live a fantasy life as a writer because I get to be someone else, someplace else for three and a half minutes, just like the listener.

I have to go someplace where I can soak myself in a creative atmosphere.

The best books come from someplace inside. You don't write because you want to, but because you have to.

I think the universe is just so big that there has to be something else out there.

Rare is the human being, immature or mature, who has never felt an impulse to pretend he is some one or something else.

When I'm working on a novel of my own, I try to read mostly nonfiction, although sometimes I break down and peek at something else.

Life without you? Actually I can't imagine what it would be, because you are always with me, you're like my guardian angel and above all a very fun and responsible friend. I love you.

She was like a star in the sky and I would imagine how she could be mine....

I don't suppose you have a rocket powered helicopter hidden in your bra?

Dare to live the fairytale.