Quotes About Creativity

I can't read novels while I'm writing a novel, because somebody's voice creeps in.

The best way to write a song is to think of something else and then the song kind of creeps in.

I'm looking forward to working with some of the best cast and crew there are.

But I won't work with the exact same crew film after film because I feel the work would get a little complacent.

I used to be a record collector. Mark Ronson, Questlove and I used to be part of, like, a record-trading crew.

Ah, the Wrecking Crew! They played on everything that came out of L.A. Oh, that was a good band. You really enjoyed going to work. You played for everyone; it didn't matter what it was.

The TekLife crew are super dope.

I never thought of starting a cricket academy because every second person is starting a cricket academy.

'Russian Ark,' I adore - I almost cried at the end of that film, it's so beautiful.

Fans always say they laughed and they cried while reading my books. And I tell them that I laughed and cried while writing them.

It's quite hard not to cringe at your own music; you're always a bit annoyed at some parts of it.

There's something about each of my books that I'm really proud of, and there's something about each of my books that I cringe over.

It's an interesting line that I walk. The AIDS crisis has done a lot for my songs and made them proliferate, and my songs have contributed a lot to that cause as well.

The criteria for writing mythological books are different. Because the results are known, the end is known. Somebody has created that limit and you have to play within that limit.

When somebody asks me what I do, I don't think I'd say critic. I say writer.

A literary critic is someone who can't write, but who loves to show he would have been a wonderful writer if only he could!

I would never really analyse what I do. I leave that to other people - I'm not a critic. I just want to get on with whatever I have in hand, you know? Just try to make the best job of the available material.

I think that 'Family Guy' and 'The Critic' come from some of the same kind of seed. I don't know what it is.

Being different is critical.

That's when the great stuff happens, when you're not checking yourself all the time, being critical of yourself and what other people are doing.

I am a writer. Being critical is a writer's responsibility.

I did two movies that were arthouse movies; they were critically successful but made no money at all... but after making those movies, I thought, 'I wouldn't watch my own movies when I was 16, and my buddies where I came from wouldn't watch my movies, because they were boring.'

I'm always up for collaborating with brands and people who actually design, but doing your own line is a whole other beast. I don't think I could deal with the criticism.

Music is art, and once you become an artist, you need to learn how to accept criticism.