Quotes About Creativity

I remember taking my demo to every dance person in London. People were like, 'We don't know what this is!' The first people to champion me were a club in Manchester.

Fun is when you're writing a song and you're trying a rough shot at a demo and... it works. That's when it's fun. After that, it's work.

What happens with writing a song and demoing it, for me the demo always becomes the master.

There's nothing wrong with working with no artist from any type of demographic, but you've still got to maintain what you do on whatever track it is.

We don't design by calculator or by demographics or anything like that. We really are a group of creative, sensitive people. We have our charmed little world where we get to make things. We're really lucky.

I really wanted to be in Love - they were making it. But I was in the demon Doors.

I felt impelled to write. It felt demonic, and I wanted to improve, the way some people habitually pick up a guitar and get better at playing it and making up songs.

We know that creative people have all sorts of demons.

I have always felt that art, especially music, is but a demonstration of God.

I do try to separate my personal activism - showing up at a demonstration or something - from what I write.

Here's the way Static-X has always worked: I write all the songs by myself - totally and completely by myself - I give demos to the other guys, and then they add their parts to it, and then we argue about stuff and compromise and it turns out being Static-X.

I write songs for the same reasons most artists write songs -because I have to, whatever that means. Because I want to talk about myself or have demos that need to be sent off. I like doing it. It's my job and I like doing it. For the most part, it's pretty easy for me.

I can't see why people call me a bad influence. I meet a lot of kids who are into music. I spend as much time as I can with them. I listen to their demos, and I'm encouraging.

When we make demos of our songs, we do our demos in English - the whole song's in English.

I want to direct in Denmark. I married a writer; my best friend's a writer, so I always wanted to be a writer.

A lot of films seem to go to the lowest common denominator.

I think that democracy has a lowest common denominator thing going on, so it might be the best of a bad bunch of political systems; but as a way of making art, actually, its not always that great, because it boils everything down.

There was never a moment when I thought I'd be a dentist, I've always wanted to perform.

I could never deny myself bein' an artist.

I kind of think of engineering like the chefs at a restaurant. Nobody's going to deny chefs are integrally important, but there's also so many other people who contribute to a great meal.

I know I'm really good at writing for the theater. I can deny it all I want. Other people can fight me on it. It doesn't really matter. It's the thing I happen to know is my gift.

All the best art and music feels like some type of truth - even if it's really simple - that you just can't deny. A listener can feel that.

I'm an emotional person. I'm not going to deny that. If I feel a certain way, I'll express it on the track.

There is no denying that working with international artistes gives the music a different feel.