Quotes About Creativity

In stand-up, there's that idea that comedy comes from a dark place, but it's not a rule.

Comedy doesn't always have to come from a dark place.

I only write when I'm in a dark place. I hit 'record' and get it out, writing and playing my guitar at the same time.

I find that a lot of directors are attracted to the dark side.

I always want to go darker, and I'm always being advised to stay on the lighter side.

I have a vision of the world as being a lot darker, perhaps, than I did when I was 31 and wrote the 'Books of Blood'.

I have a darker imagination than most people.

Sometimes the darker the work, the more fun you can have.

I've tried writing darker, more serious songs, but they don't go anywhere. Everything revolves around the chorus for me.

We definitely like to write songs about darker things, but we like to think of it as a celebration of the evil ideas that run through everybody's head.

I'm very interested in telling darker stories that maybe you are not used to seeing in animation. Especially because in animation you don't see those kind of stories.

To be a comedian, you have to have some darkness behind it. I certainly draw on my past, and it helps.

My kids' books all have a darkness to them.

By appreciating the darkness when you design the light, you create much more interesting environments that truly enhance our lives.

When I first started out writing the 'Darkness' books, there was, at least in my mind, a certain sort of rulebook we had to follow.

The darkroom is just the means to an end.

I discovered that I could do whatever I wanted with a negative in a darkroom and an enlarger.

I stay away from the arts... writing songs, being creative - those are downloads from God. You can't do data analytics on art.

A lot of the guys that I date and my friends are all in bands.

I've written with people who aren't like me, then I've written with people who totally get it. It's like a blind date, and you never know what's going to happen. But it's really cool because they learn from you, and you learn a little bit from them. And sometimes it works out, and sometimes it doesn't.

I like dressing like I'm going on a date when I'm on stage.

When you have kids, it can be hard sometimes because you've got to find creative ways to spend time with each other. So with 'Lights Down Low,' I wanted to just write about all the things that we do to try to keep the love alive in creative ways, because you can't always go out on a date... but you can make a date at home.

When you look at my father's works, he systematically dated everything. He also wanted to document what he knew would be the work of the century.

I had a lot of people that told me, 'Oh you're dated, or you're this or you're that or you need to be more this,' and it's kind of funny that when I stopped listening to all of that and just wrote from a place of truth everything started to fall into place for me.