Quotes About Creativity

I've got so much material; like, it feels as if every day I'm coming up with so many riffs.

For me, the fun part is riffs, and making the riffs is what I... that's my world. I'm born for that. And when it comes to lyrics, it's an agonizing process.

The idea that everyone should slavishly work so they do something inefficiently so they keep their job - that just doesn't make any sense to me. That can't be the right answer.

Most of my friends who got shows right away are still just doing shows, and they have no need to create.

A lot of times, if you're not getting inspiration right away, we'll listen to stuff to get inspired.

We'll go in one direction with one album, and then we like to do the opposite right away. But it's not like we ever have an idea before we start - that would be too artificial. It all starts from just sitting in a room and playing.

I don't think I'm the right man to adapt a book.

When you get the right people together, writing music becomes very effortless.

We're guys that like to make fun music, music that people like. And I think, for us, it's just important to always keep your mind in the right place and always keep your heart in the place of making music that you love.

'The Waterdance' was made for all the right reasons. Everybody that was involved in the film gave it their all.

The right time to record is when you're not quite ahead of yourself.

I was starting to write and I was like, Okay, I'm going to cast myself in my own thing.' You have so many of those moments as an actor because it's about talent obviously, but it's mostly about being in the right place at the right time.

I can gabble on now, but I couldn't when I was a kid, so I spent a lot of time in my own head on the moors by myself. It felt like writing was the right way to express myself.

I think if you're lucky enough to be in a band with your best friends, and you look at the world in the right way, than you understand that everything that's happening to you can be alchemized.

I'm not someone who has to make a film at any cost. I have to find the right way to make it or not at all.

I was very happy when I was doing my first two films: 'Student No.1', 'Simhadri'. I had absolutely no doubts - I would just place my camera at one point and say, 'That is the right way.'

There's no one right way to teach poetry in schools.

Working with Rihanna has changed my life.

I'd love to work with people like Drake, Kendrick Lamar, Rihanna, Bruno Mars, and The Weeknd.

I did 'We Can't Stop' for Rihanna, but it never worked. Every time I would play 'We Can't Stop' I was like 'this is the new 'Party in the U.S.A.'' I was like OK if I keep saying this is the new 'Party in the U.S.A.,' why don't I go to the girl who did 'Party in the U.S.A.?'

I want to do a song with Rihanna - we need to make that work.

I wrote a lot of 'Driving on the Rim' by giving myself the gift of being just as eccentric as I felt like.

You can't wait and sit for the phone to ring, so I do theater.

'Die Antwoord' just has a nice ring to it.