Quotes About Creativity

My rap name as a kid was Big Tasty.

I love going to the Tate Modern and I was really scared when they did the renovation and then I was so happy because they've done something really amazing there.

Some comic artists I've known are better than most contemporary artists with work hanging in Tate Modern.

I can't think of many places I'd rather spend Saturday afternoon than in a tattoo parlor.

Having the tattoo itself is not really for the end result for me. I like having them done.

I can't make a song for a particular person or demographic. If I love it, I'm gonna do it. I have to perform it for the rest of my life. A song is like a tattoo - you can never get away from it.

A tattoo doesn't make you look like an individual.

One of the series I like is D.M. Cornish's 'Monster Blood Tattoo,' in which he creates a whole language. Kids who are reading that are building a language in their heads. There's no real cognitive difference. I think kids are excited by language, and they're not always given credit for that.

I'm a tattoo artist, and I went to school to paint, and I started writing and getting published.

The artwork on my packaging was something I painstakingly micro-managed - for example, I treat it like a tattoo, taking into consideration the muscle structure and seeing were the line lands on the existing body.

I can do a lot in 30 seconds. With Tattoo Liner I can do eyeliner, eyebrow, and, if I want to get creative, a lip look, too.

I have this bookmark with glued-on macaroni. I made it in the fourth grade while in detention for giving a girl a tattoo using two rocks rubbed together and a stick.

I always liked the idea of shaving the back of my head and getting a tattoo of my own face there so that, whichever way I was looking, I could freak people out.

When I was a kid I always liked scratching myself - making shapes, making drawings, and I always thought I would have a tattoo.

Well, I've always wanted to get a tattoo done, I just never got around to doing it!

No one would get a tattoo like this, so I decided to get Jesus holding a basketball.

The drawings in 'Portal' were actually me scribbling that stuff... I had a funny moment when I realized that someone gotten 'The cake is a lie' tattooed on themselves. It was really interesting to see my handwriting tattooed on another human being. That... that's odd.

I get tattooed a lot.

Several years ago, I had the words 'let the music set you free' tattooed behind my left ear, as it really is my mantra for life.

I just like tattoos.

I have five tattoos.

I would always change my Barbies. I'd cut their hair, paint on tattoos, and create new clothes for them. I would invent elaborate stories: fights, dramas, successes. I would try out my ideas on them. And sometimes they would sing!

Yes, there are probably too many tattoos. But there are too many bad haircuts, too many bad shoe choices, too many bad jeans.

All my tattoos have been spur-of-the-moment ones and not planned.