Quotes About Creativity

Why do we think the '70s were so awesome? That 'freeness' of music was there.

I wake up every day, make awesome music with awesome people, and tour the world, which is incredible.

Any time you get to work with someone new who you admire, who's awesome, it's great; you're excited to be there.

I've always loved movies and loved the idea of playing make-believe. That was my favorite game, growing up as a child, was make-believe, and to be able to do it as an adult is awesome.

People forget we've got awesome entrepreneurs all over the country, especially in the North East.

I know it's a bit of an awful thing to say, but I really just make things up. My main goal is to make a picture that people find interesting to look at and that has my name on it.

I did try to write fiction. I wrote 10 novels. And they were all just awful.

Drugs, sex, booze, all the stuff that we wanted to do. The problem was that we didn't want to learn the top 40 'cause most of the music was awful and we had this other idea about what we wanted to do.

I like playing with light and shade. I like saying awful things in very pretty ways.

When I think of the things that I want to write, I can never say them out loud because I know how crazy they sound. I know what things sound like when you haven't actually worked on the script, so I don't go around saying some of these ideas because they just sound awful.

I had an awful lot to say in what I wore as Romana.

I think writing well takes a little bit of talent and an awful lot of work.

Once in awhile you have a thought, and you rhyme it.

When I was 12, I was going through an awkward time. Writing music helped me find my voice and express the things I was feeling.

I've always found the Write-What-You-Know axiom small and stifling.

None of us had really any interest in doing a sort of 'Babel 2.'

Stand-up is my baby.

With writing, I need a lot of time to sit around and do nothing. But now that I have kids, I just don't have that luxury. I have a babysitter for three hours a day, which is how long I have to write.

My earliest memories were when my mom would put me in the plays that she was in because she couldn't afford a babysitter... she was part of this theater group.

Some movies work really well with music from Bach or Mahler that existed long before the film, so music has its own autonomy.

We consciously tend to listen to stuff that is further than what we do. We listen to Bach.

When we look back at the Mayans or ancient Egypt, we look at their art.

I wouldn't want to try to adapt something of my own. It would be like going back to school and doing all my exams again.

The writers are the backbone in television, like in film, but eventually, as an actress, I can bring something.