Quotes About Creativity

I took a lot of writing courses.

Remember I'm an artist. And you know what that means in a court of law. Next worst to an actress.

I will get a loan and pay the money the court asks for. But I will not lay down my writing and I still say this was an important book to write.

What's important is the work that you're doing, not the country that you're in. I would much rather be in a play at the Royal Court than in Los Angeles making 'Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel.'

Having an idea is easy, courting one can be difficult.

Me and my little cousin DJ John John, we used to always be DJing in the house. We never took it seriously.

I feel like science and art are cousins.

Growing up the way that I did - I grew up with a lot of cousins - you just have this imagination, and I love going and telling different stories. I'm a clown.

I've never tried to do couture, because it's a whole different beast.

I only take risks in couture, but I don't take risks in athleticism.

I have a very haute couture way of working.

Being a cover artist is not like being a real artist. That's just copying what someone else did.

When you're in your 20s, there's maybe a little room for you to not be at the top of your artistic game, if you look good on a magazine cover. When you're not on the cover of the magazines anymore, then you realize that the work has to be great.

I don't have an album cover with me on a broomstick.

There are so many songs out there in the world that - if I know we have to come up with a new cover, then I'll just sit in my room and sing song after song and figure out which one I can kind of sing the best.

I have to say, Alejandro Colucci is amazing. I had seen his work several times before I started making the connection between the art and the person making it, and when I heard that he was going to work on the cover for 'Seven Forges,' that connection was not yet cemented.

There's some songs you can cover, and I've covered and butchered a few, but you can't do them all.

It's pretty crazy the amount of people that have covered my songs.

I remember starting out and covering songs.

I get a lot of joy out of covering other people's songs, and, at my best, I think I bring something a little new to a lot of them.

I'm happy that I don't have to do covers anymore, because that's not what I do.

One of my favorite album covers is Miguel's 'Wildheart.'

I wanted to write songs that were as good as the covers.

And this one I wanted to do some covers. So I just really sang some of my favorite songs.