Quotes About Creativity

I've got Peter Pan syndrome. It's not that I refuse to grow up - I love building businesses; I want to be a good husband, a good father. But I don't want to be boring. I don't want to be normal.

I never did calligraphy... But handwriting is an entirely different kind of thing. It's part of the syndrome of modernism... It's part of that asceticism.

I struggled with the pressure of having the successful record after the first record. Second album syndrome. I'm living proof; it's very real. It was like a psychological battle to be creative. I used to never feel pressure to be creative; it's always just been a fun thing. And then suddenly it's my job, and people are asking, 'Where's the record?'

Everyone gets that second album syndrome.

You have two years to make a record and do what you like to it; then, you have 10 minutes to do an interview that could mess it all up. It's the Crispian Mills Syndrome.

I've heard some writers say that they are obsessed with certain ideas and that they find themselves writing around the same obsession again and again, but telling different stories to get at that same idea. I'm beginning to think that I suffer from this syndrome, too.

Once you're done with the film, it's almost like empty nest syndrome: your kid has moved out of the house.

As an artist I'm very aware of what I call Picasso-napkin syndrome - I've got this 20th century version of the midas touch, where if I do a little doodle it's worth money!

I was surprised to see the kind of synergy we made with Lady Gaga and our colors.

The synergy created from clothing, hair, and makeup combined is truly amazing, so makeup has been, is, and will be a key factor in establishing my identity as an artist.

There's a synergy with Dre and me.

Restrictiveness is not synonymous with food.

Dance and I are synonymous, and nobody can take away dance from my life. Also, I cannot look at dance in an inert way; it's my passion, and I get keen on being part of any show or film that has dance!

Jokes that are gratuitously offensive are synonymous with bad writing to me. I'm offended as a writer first and as a person second.

At the end of the day, I want to be my own person, I want to be my own performer, and I want to have a finisher that's synonymous with me and not with my mentor.

I want to prove you don't need to have academic syntax to be intelligent.

When I'm actually writing by hand, I get more of a sense of the rhythm of sentences, of syntax. The switch to the computer is when I actually start thinking about lines. That's the workhorse part. At that point, I'm being more mathematical about putting the poem on the page and less intuitive about the rhythm of the syntax.

In New Order, I played about 95% of the synths. It's not much fun for the other guys in the band when I'm playing my synth parts.

I bought this Oxygen midi synth from a flea market in Boston for $10. And then I found a cord in my house that fit it, and so I just started using that to do synth stuff in GarageBand.

Legs' wouldn't be 'Legs' unless it had that driving synth bass.

The synth helped us in that it meant you didn't have to be a traditional four-piece band and basically, you didn't have to work too hard.

I think art, more than anything else, helps humans to synthesize emotion and to synthesize parts of ourselves, so therefore, as an artist, I feel a responsibility to try and facilitate that synthesis.

I'm very interested in voice synthesis and vocoders in general.

To me, I don't see any difference between a synthesizer and an acoustic instrument. It's what's done on it that counts.