Quotes About Creativity

What I do is doing movies and sharing movies.

For me, playwriting is sharing my experiences, telling my stories.

Even as a little kid, I just loved to make my own music. So I loved singing, and I loved sharing it because it was a way to connect to people.

We were all working for 400 dollars a week at the Public Theater and sharing a space downstairs together, so we grew to love each other. That dynamic for me as an original company member is special to me.

I just write about myself all the time, which is a funny one, because I don't really like sharing much stuff with other people, apart from music.

At the end of the day, I earn a living by creating music and not sharing it with anyone because I am my own master. I know my worth.

With my songs and music, it's a way of sharing things with people that really have to do with me.

Pinterest is not about sharing with your friends. It's about saving ideas for your future.

'Eagle vs Shark' is a little film I could take risks with and make mistakes on.

That's what as an artist you always try to do. To try to be a sharper mind than the average person.

When I started off, I was working in a shed behind my house. All I had was a drill, an electric drill. That was the only machine I had.

I dreamed of having a book of my own, of writing one that I could put on a shelf.

I am always most excited about the newest material I am doing, and other songs get put back on the shelf or dropped.

I really don't have any shelf music.

I started writing books because I couldn't find the books I wanted to read on the shelf.

I'm more attracted to art that smashes than I am attracted to art that sits on a shelf and is beautiful.

The shelf life of an artist or musician isn't particularly long.

My work is my shelter, particularly in these moments when things are happening fast.

The Shield was my idea.

I love drama. Drama is, like, my thing. I want a movie that will move something inside me, that's going to shift something and keep me thinking.

When I was a kid, I used to make up all these characters. I love comedy a lot, and I don't get to do it often. Somewhere in the middle, I shifted into doing drama.

Live theater is an amorphous art, constantly shifting and evolving with every performance.

I think hip-hop always shifts culture.

You make up a character, there's always gonna be parts of you that, like it or not, shine through.