Quotes About Creativity

If I wait for the great definitive story of my people to come around, I'm never going to work.

I love people that willfully defy what you're supposed to be and create their own definition of their selves.

Drafting is not only an art, but there's a degree of science as well.

If I had taken a doctoral degree, it would have stifled any writing capacity.

There is a certain degree of 'steampunkishness' that creeps into my books.

I never like to think that I design for a particular person. I design for the woman I wanted to be, the woman I used to be, and - to some degree - the woman I'm still a little piece of.

I screw up on the delay settings, so pretty much everything is manually done by me - I don't have those presets like the Edge has.

Talking about the all night concerts, I did some of the first all night concerts back in the 60's with this little harmonium, and I also had saxophone taped delays.

When I was working on 'Freddie,' I had been trying to write it on a computer for many, many years, but that delete button just won't let anything go forward.

I often found that my favorite scene that I shoot is often one that I cut out, like in 'The Last Castle' and 'The Contender.' If you look at the deleted scenes, some of the best scenes never made it into the film.

If you are known to do something well, people want to see you do that. But what you choose to do is up to you. After 'Delhi Belly,' I got some 40 scripts - some on the same lines as 'Delhi Belly.' So, I guess people only get stereotyped if they want to.

The look of being too deliberately dressed, with everything cautiously matching, always bores me.

Balenciaga did the most delicious evening clothes. Clothes aren't delicious any more.

The best sort of activity is one that combines mental effort with sensuous delight. That's why I love drawing.

If you're willing to do it as good as you're willing to think up to do it, that's what your mind is there for, and you deliver excellence right now, now being the only moment you can control or do anything with or be creative with.

Success, for me, is a song that can deliver shivers.

I feel I have so much more to deliver than music.

The mark of a writer is to make a story as likely as possible, and I've done my best to deliver authentic atmosphere.

It's just my goal to deliver the best story I can, and I want to make sure each book is better than the last, and in order to do that, I have to take chances.

Any passionate actor, if he is spoon-fed, will deliver.

With independent music, I can do what I feel satisfied with, and not feel the pressure of what others expect me to deliver.

You should be able to deliver what the artist you're working with wants.

We always try to sing what we feel, and it would be best if we can become artists who can deliver the feeling through our songs.

I love music, and that is what I care for, and that is what I deliver for people.