Quotes About Creativity

I just try to write songs that people are going to have a dialogue about.

When I act, I hear it like music. In my head, I hear the dialogue like music.

I like the idea of the artist going out in the world, creating a dialogue.

Any dialogue about fashion is a good dialogue.

I don't go back and read my own stuff too much, but there are times where I second-guess myself and said I could have done something different, like a line of dialogue.

That's what music-making is: a dialogue.

I'm a big believer in writing really good dialogue.

At its best, writing is a dialogue. It's one of the things I love about children's: the fact that this dialogue is really there from the get-go, from the start of writing.

When you start rhyming, it's hard to find things that rhyme with Yauch, Horovitz and Diamond.

I wrote my first song when I was about eight. It was about putting a diaper on a chicken!

Until I was twenty-eight, I had a kind of buried self who didn't know she could do anything but make white sauce and diaper babies. I didn't know I had any creative depths.

I know I sometimes come across as being quite dismissive about acting. But I'm not. It's like people reading their diaries in public. I don't want to talk about how I create characters. I find it self-indulgent.

I'm not much of a writing guy to start with. I don't write diaries.

Music is a diary. Sometimes people make music as if no one's going to hear it, as if they can just be completely honest. Things are a lot more acceptable said in a song than it would be in person. Art excuses a lot of things.

In early draft it never satisfied me, and that was when it clicked into place and it went so well as a diary.

I don't want to be singing my diary.

I write songs that are like diary entries. I have to do it in order to feel sane.

I have kept a diary as long as I can remember, and drawings are really another kind of diary.

A lot of music is like a diary for me.

What I find really attractive is something that's going to be a little dangerous. Something that might get me into trouble; you know, you turn up in London and you've just rewritten Dickens. And, of course, then you think, 'What have I done?'

The young Dickens was so alive, so self-confident, so funny.

In his life, Charles Dickens was like the rest of us, but maybe more so: another poor and wonderful soul attempting to deal with his and the world's pain and confusion in the best way he knew how.

The ideas dictate everything, you have to be true to that or you're dead.

If I want to be a real comedian, I can't let you dictate my material, so I started creating more new material.