Quotes About Creativity

I've planned book tours for myself, whether or not anybody wants to hear what I have to say. I've weighed in on things like what the cover looks like, what the copy looks like, how it's going to be promoted - just every aspect of it.

If you see 'Pollock,' I weighed almost 270 pounds.

I grew up listening to topical music - songs that were about things. So when I write songs, a lot of the time, they're about the things weighing on my heart that I want people to think about.

It's easy to gain weight when you're in the studio.

It's a heavy weight, the camera. Now we have modern and lightweight, small plastic cameras, but in the '70s they were heavy metal.

Everything you do has certain significance, a certain weight. I think there is a film in everyone.

I think I'm always surprised at how much the musicians I meet put weight on things that aren't music.

Perhaps cliche is nothing more than the weight of the past pinning down your mind. In this sense, imaginative freedom is a way of finding the future, though it isn't so easy to do.

Because the more you write the more you're aware of the weight of your tradition and the difficulties of the form and the more you have already done that you do not want to do again.

Songwriting is the other weight on the opposite side of the scale from touring. They balance me out creatively.

Writing poetry makes you intensely conscious of how words sound, both aloud and inside the head of the reader. You learn the weight of words and how they sound to the ear.

I get a million ideas a day and I don't put too much weight on any one of them. The ones that really stick in my head are the ones I end up doing.

When I was a little girl, I wanted to be a civil engineer. No joke. I would come home from school and build bridges out of toothpicks and see how much weight they would hold before falling.

I write line by line, by the sound and the weight and the music of the words.

In the theater, everything is ephemeral. Everything is almost weightless and without a very clear definition of how you made it.

I remember loving food tech because of the precision and the creativity, the weights and measures, the tiny glimpses of flavour.

Where's your will to be weird?

I'm just gonna be more weird and unique as possible.

I'm thankful for weird people out there 'cause they're some of the most creative people.

It's good as an artist to always remember to see things in a new, weird way.

When I was a kid, I collected cactuses. I had hundreds of different kinds in my room. I was a weird child. Everyone was playing football, and I was collecting cactuses. I spent all my money on them. I had so many colors and shapes. I even gave them names.

Nowadays, everybody wanna be weird. We know how to manifest being weird.

Music is just such... it's not therapy, but it's a release, it's a joy, it's a pleasure. And it's a job - which is weird, because I don't think of it as a job.

I know my lyrics might be weird to some, but they're not like that to me because I know where they come from - I know the secret.