Quotes About Creativity

My mother was against me being an artist. She just wanted me to marry a rich man.

I would probably go so far as to say that I couldn't act before I met Richard Ayoade.

I would like to call India a gold-mine of art. It's really the richest in the world.

Rick Rubin's amazing, by the way. I just need to say that.

I'd love to work with Rick Rubin. He made some pretty seminal records.

That's what a producer does - make it better; help make the song better and make the band better. Not write music for the band or tell a band what to do. And Rick Rubin doesn't tell you what to do; that's why some people don't like him.

I've always wanted to work with Ricky Gervais.

I listened to a lot of Ricky Skaggs' Country stuff.

Dancing has always been a passion for me, one that I will probably never be rid of.

When young people hear auto-tune, they think that's real R&B. You have to get rid of all of the gimmicks.

I wouldn't put out anything that I didn't want to ride to.

'Easy Rider' and 'The Last Movie' were the only films that I made totally on my own.

We have a ridiculous amount of material.

It's ridiculous, the people I get to work with.

I won't say which one, but one shot on 'Kubo' took two months to get the expression right. It's ridiculous on some level.

Out of 35 pictures I made, 30 were ridiculous.

I have this ridiculous idea that art should just be for everyone, and everyone should get to enjoy art and it shouldn't be this exclusive thing.

One thing will lead to another and somebody will come up with a riff or a line or something we build from.

You would find in a lot of Zep stuff that the riff was the juggernaut that careered through and I worked the lyrics around this.

When I write a song, it's all about the riff - the riff first, then the words come later.

If there is one thing that makes me unique, it's that I riff a lot.

I've never been known as a riff kind of artist.

In my live show, it will feel like I'm making up everything as I go, and a lot of it I do. I riff with the audience and see what happens.

I play guitar and I'm always trying to find out the latest kinds of riffs.