Quotes About Creativity

We are not a boy band in the traditional sense. We don't dance or have synchronized moves. We are a pop-rock band.

I like to make popcorn movies. It's my passion. I love the genre.

Long time ago, we used to sit around eating popcorn and drawing up plays.

You don't have to be Pope Julius to have great art in your house.

I love people who go out and say, 'If cinema is God, then I'm the pope.' As an actor working with these kinds of people, the older you get, the more you appreciate it.

Find a poet whose style you like, emulate that style, then deal with things that you know about - don't waste your time looking for your own style.' I wish I could remember who told me that, because I'd like to congraulate him. I've emulated all the old guys - Tennyson, Alexander Pope.

I was offered 'Popeye,' which Robert Altman made. They offered me $2 million to direct that, which was good money. I wasn't interested in it. I don't like that kind of movie.

E.C. Segar, who created 'Thimble Theatre' and 'Popeye,' is one of my favorite cartoonists.

Entrepreneurs are natural problem-solvers, which means that we always have ideas for new businesses popping into our heads. Having a lot of options is great, but sometimes it can be hard to focus on one when you are keen to move onto the next.

It's so funny when you're actually directing because things start popping that you don't expect to pop, and something that you think is going to pop, maybe doesn't quite have the impetus that you thought it might.

When I was writing the first few books, what I would do is write a bunch of sentences and then go back and expand and explode those sentences, pack as much into them as I could, so they'd kind of be like popcorn kernels popping... all this stuff in there to make the writing dense, and beautiful for its density.

Atlantic has been great to me. They didn't flinch when I told them I was self-producing, and nobody was popping their head in the studio.

I have a huge note on my phone where things just start popping up. It doesn't make that much sense to me at the time, but once a song is finished, I can read into it and figure out who the characters are in my life.

When I moved to Nashville, I didn't really let myself sonically explore, but things naturally got a little more poppy. And in L.A., even more so.

I entered music at a poppy level.

I took two years out to find what sound I felt passionate about and what I liked making. After the last album, 'Peroxide', which is quite poppy and acoustic, I felt really bored.

A new idea is like carbonated liquid in a bottle. You just sort of shake it until the cork pops, then you write and write.

I always have a big idea. It pops up every two to three years.

If something pops in my mind and it's easy, I write it.

The voice is probably supposed to have some cracks and pops and some mistakes in it.

My pops had me at the studio since I was born. That's why I got into music. He would let me go up on the controls and mess with stuff.

As a kid, my pops did music, too. He was in a group called Lakeside back in the day.

I like to create whatever that pops up in my head, bring whatever idea to life.

People sometimes think that a video pops out of my head with no more work than extracting a booger. Every video is a challenge (an exciting one, sure, but a challenge.) Every collaboration is complicated.