Quotes About Imagination

My first single was based around the mishearing of the words 'make believe' - 'I thought she said maple leaves.' That kind of stuff is very central to my music and my life.

You're best off when you're part of the centre of the creative universe.

Even when I was young, I would build things with Lego or make 'robots' out of cereal boxes - long before I learned metalwork. The desire to build was always there.

As a kid, I always had my nose buried in the side of a cereal box.

Since I was really small, my mum says I wouldn't talk at breakfast because I would just read the back of the cereal packet.

If you're going to establish a certain level of unreality than you have to deal with it.

In a play, a few actors perform a few characters, and they need to perform those characters with a certain level of believability so that audiences can actually understand and see them as those characters.

I can get inspired, like anyone, from movies or music or TV or a certain way people think.

I don't know if I believe in art. I certainly believe in light.

Certainly in cartooning I'm given huge free rein at the moment.

People who sit for hours in a beach chair or an airplane seat without any reading material simply baffle me: What is going on between their ears, I wonder?

The magic word 'Shakespeare' always freezes you in your chair.

I want to be in some Willy Wonka-type weird stuff, a role where I'm an alien. Anything that's new and challenging and real. I like real stuff.

Creative content is challenging, no matter what, and animation is particularly challenging.

It's really fun and challenging to build things that have never been built before.

Winning the Champions League is what you dream about when you are a small child.

Ever since I was a kid, I'd imagine that I was making a break to win the world championship.

Thousands of time I've won the Open Championship in my mind. This is probably the one I've dreamed about the most.

I kind of watch anything on the Syfy channel.

As a kid, we had one television channel and a sad little roller rink. And there was not much else to do. So I used my imagination all of the time growing up. That's the main way I played. When we moved and I went to high school, I did my first play, and I was completely addicted to theatre. It felt like home; it felt natural.

I love mishmash and the chaos of art forms.

It gives you a high when you create characters and make them do what you want them to do.

When I write, I just let my characters go, the way I let life go.

I like being a 10-year-old kid who's in charge.