Quotes About Creativity

I kind of want to start doing some prank calls.

I do sometimes find it interesting when I look at a lot of the pranks that are out there, and I see kids doing the exact things that I did in the '90s. Like, I would go out on the street on crutches and fall down, and people would help me. Or I would paint my parents' house plaid; I've seen that replicated.

I hope and pray that I'll be one of those fortunate people who have many, many books to write. I don't begrudge writing. I love the whole thing!

As a child I prayed that my calling be revealed - but not with expectation and not with a destination. I became an artist because I didn't know what to do and I thought it was really fun to make things.

Every time before I go into the studio, I say a prayer, and I really ask God for inspiration.

To me, writing is prayer. I pray all the time.

I am 55 years old now. It takes three years to write one book. I don't know how many books I will be able to write before I die. It is like a countdown. So with each book I am praying - please let me live until I am finished.

As a comedy writer, I'm always praying for the day I can tell a self-aware/break-the-fourth-wall style of joke.

While 'Yaariyan' took me time in pre-production, I also had issues with the censor certification.

I love the power of music and artistry and feel a responsibility having a platform to preach good things.

We've never tried to educate children. We've never tried to preach to them, just entertain.

I will preach with my brush.

To be a writer does not mean to preach a truth, it means to discover a truth.

We don't have to stand on a soap-box and preach because hopefully we're channelling it through the new record.

Now I don't really write for adults or kids - I don't write for kids, I write about them. I think you need to do that, otherwise you end up preaching down.

My job isn't to preach to people, it's to entertain them. I like letting the characters speak for themselves.

I've always been a very artsy person, and I always preach self-confidence and knowing your worth.

I try not to be someone who's preaching a message with my films or anything like that.

Hollywood films have become a cesspool of formula and it's up to us to try to change it... I feel like a preacher! But it's really true. I feel personally responsible for the future of American cinema. Me personally.

With all respect, I'm sure that we have enough preachers in the world. Through my way of writing, I was capable of being able to say these things and yet not make a person feel as though they're being preached at.

I don't write tracts, I write novels. I'm not a preacher, I'm a fiction writer.

I'm not the kind of writer who's able to block out the world around me. I'm mindful of our own haves and have-nots, how our culture often blames and punishes the have-nots. I worry about our precarious economic and political climate.

I wrote my first album almost as an entitled child. 'Taxidermy' is written by a much more precarious, untrusting adult.

I think back on it now and even though Gwen and I were living through a tough time with the breakup, as creative partners, that took precedence in our lives. Even though we were going through this really emotional stuff, which obviously ended out coming out in the music, we managed to stay really close and be creative partners through all of that.