Quotes About Creativity

Constrained circumstances can bring the best out of you.

I didn't want to feel constrained, so I took on the Mutants.

I'm phobic about the idea of being constrained.

When you write, you don't have the social constraints of having people in front of you, so you talk about abstract matters.

Compromise is the key element. The more constraints you have, the more compromise you have to have. But, I personally believe that, when that happens, you have to get more creative, and you end up with something that is even better.

I'm not a tabula rasa type. In some ways, the more constraints I have, the work is more interesting to me.

The lyrics are constructed as empirically as the music. I don't set out to say anything very important.

I come from a long line of architects. I'm the only one who did not become an architect, but I've been around the drawing aspect and construction my whole life.

This exploded in me almost more music than I could consume.

I consume a lot of television and a lot of movies, and I love watching other actors work and am just very inspired by it.

There's never going to be a new Beatles because we don't consume things in that way anymore.

Music, music, music. It doesn't get much better than that! It pretty much consumes my life.

Design is my biggest love. It consumes me!

I think people become consumed with selling a book when they need to be consumed with writing it.

I guess the bottom line is I don't make music that is consumed en masse.

Basically, my life was music, and I was always consumed by it.

I have always enjoyed dressing up, but I don't do it as often as I would want to, because it's time consuming.

I'm involved in all things musical. It's all consuming, even if it doesn't necessarily manifest as a record or a concert.

I think when you make something that is non-mainstream and people don't have automatic way of consuming, like you don't have a big star, or a hit song or marketing money then you need to find some way to make audience aware of your film.

People think the world of music is so great, and it's just not. It's so boring, the way music is conceived and then declawed for public consumption.

When I'm not working in a professional capacity, I'm writing, and when I'm at home, it's a way of having contact with people or communicating.

Whether it's a bright shoe or a clutch or a lipstick, I've had a lot of fun using color contacts as an accessory.

I took a class at The Second City, and it became contagious.

I work in a very contained environment, usually.