Quotes About Imagination

The cool thing about being a songwriter, or a writer, I guess, in general, you can take on a lot of different things, experience a lot of different things, just by writing about them.

I'm a songwriter, and I understand artistic licence. We can embellish, go on little journeys and explore our inner selves. It can be quite self-indulgent.

Someone like Katy Perry - I like her writing because I listen to music as a songwriter. I like a lot of her songs - like, 'Firework' is a song that I think I could write.

What made me a comedian was that I wasn't really a songwriter, I was more of a poet.

I definitely want to act and I want to sing. If those two fall through, I want to become a writer, probably, like a songwriter for other people, or a novel writer. I write a lot, and I read a lot. I like reading fiction.

I wanted to be a writer since I was a little girl - long before I was a musician and a songwriter.

I always like to write the songs, and they get turned loose into the world, and who knows what happens to them. That's the joy of being a songwriter. You get to hear what other people do, interpretation-wise.

As a songwriter, we're looking for a good story, and we're always looking to push the limits.

As a songwriter, metaphor is instinctual.

I'm probably much more influenced by film-makers and painters than I am by other songwriters or poets.

That's what we get to do as songwriters, right? You get to explore stuff.

The key to songwriting is just to be able to observe, and put yourself in situations to be around people, and let those ideas come to you.

One of the nice things about songwriting is you can be inspired by absolutely anything.

I think my favorite thing is songwriting.

I don't really know that there's any real rules for songwriting.

There's a lot of personal stuff that can go into songwriting but there's also a lot of dramatization and fictionalization. You have to do that to make a good song.

I always found very strong images for my songwriting in New York.

I love watching movies, and I'm very inspired by movies when it comes to songwriting!

That's what's amazing about songwriting: you can write a story that everyone connects to.

It's amazing to me that songwriting is an actual job.

I enjoy acting because it is very different to songwriting and it allows me to flex a different creative muscle.

With animated film, you have to create the sonic world; there's nothing there. You get to color things in more and you're allowed to overreach yourself a little bit more, and it's great fun.

Imaginary evils soon become real one by indulging our reflections on them.

Memory depends mainly upon myth. Some even occurs in our minds, in actuality or in fantasy; we form it in memory, molding it like clay day after day - and soon we have made out of that event a myth. We then keep the myth in memory as a guide to future similar situations.