Quotes About Imagination

Acting's boring.

I remember borrowing my mum's Instamatic 110 camera as a kid and doing still lifes of tennis balls and benches and thinking they were going to be something really amazing. They ended up being really bad.

Whenever Boston comes on, I play air guitar.

I've never had Botox. But I like people to imagine I have.

With writing a song, I've always felt, right from the start, like I'm scraping the bottom of the barrel. I don't ever feel there's a font of ideas to fall back on.

I never know how a novel is going to end, because you don't really know what's going to be at the bottom of a novel until you excavate it.

When I was small, my parents came back from Tijuana, and my dad bought me a very small acoustic guitar. I loved it. I started making up my own songs right away.

Art can go beyond certain boundaries or blindness that we would have without that.

I believe that music should really be without boundaries.

I think every artist wants to create something, on their own, without any boundaries.

To make films, you have to have boundless energy; you have to work and play with others really, really well, and I'm really a more contemplative kind of person. I like to sit at home and think, a lot.

Every song has a bouquet, which is the music. If you can put words with something that is really apt, then you've done it.

If you can even manage to tell exactly what a song is about, all you do is put that song in a box forever, and it loses its evocative power.

Color has always been important to me, ever since my first deluxe box of Crayolas.

I like more the fact that I like to think out of the box. Thinking out of the box goes along with dressing out of the box and living out of the box.

I was probably like 13 years old, 14. And I used to walk home doing the beatbox from school. That's how I created it. There was no walkmans back then, no iPods, no CDs. There was just me. Back then there was the boom box.

I want to live outside of the box, and I definitely don't want to put God in a box, so I want to be able to dream big and kind of let that go of my small-mindedness.

Over the years, my art box has gotten bigger and bigger.

It's not like I have boxes of scripts arriving at my door.

I came up with all kinds of stuff. That was part of being great and having creativity. I'm not just bragging about myself. I'm just saying.

I never sit down and write. I just sorta let things form in my brain.

I'm astounded by people who can listen to music when they write. I can only assume that they have multi-track brains, while mine is decidedly single.

Most brands want to see their products used in creative ways.

I really love it when brands get very creative with products.