Quotes About Creativity

I can write a love song or a ballad, or when I read something and it pisses me off, I know how to go in.

The first and last song I ever wrote was a ballad I was quite proud of, and one I would play for anyone, anywhere.

My music is very diversified. I'll have a rock song then I'll do a ballad.

If I have the chance, I would like to write an emotional, sad ballad.

Back in the Eighties, I used to write ballads on my acoustic guitar, so it seems very natural to me to go back to a little singing.

I always wrote ballads, and I always wrote rockers.

Half the people tell me, 'I love 'Go All the Way,' but why do you have to write all those schlocky ballads.' And half say, 'I love 'All By Myself,' but why do you waste your time with this rock 'n' roll stuff?' I'd like to think that I could do both.

I wanted to be ballerina, be in a band, then in drama.

I had never a thought of training to be a ballerina. I was a normal child. I never dreamed of the tutu.

My mom was a dance teacher, so she put me in dance school when I was a kid. I did everything. I used to take ballet.

Every ballet, whether or not successful artistically or with the public, has given me something important.

I always knew I was a bit different from my friends, had too much energy, and suddenly I could get it all out with ballet.

I thought 'Out of Africa' would be a beautiful ballet.

I'm trying to create ballets that I would enjoy seeing.

Sometimes I feel as if sections of my ballets were done for me - that I didn't do them myself.

I think ballet is pretty open about what music is used, actually.

My family was artistic and encouraged me to express myself. I was a show-off, so they took me to ballet class.

I've been wearing makeup for as long as I can remember. I started by playing with my mom's lipsticks, then in ballet I would apply my own stage makeup.

I keep starting supergroups, writing ballets and things like that.

I only started writing in the latter days of Spandau Ballet. I didnt know I could write because all had our roles within the band.

There's so much you can say about the ballroom scene. But, simply, it's just a way of life. It's a place you can live out a fantasy you never lived before.

No matter how long you play rock n roll songs might change just as the balls are there, the rock balls. And that's what's important to us.

I think Baltimore is a wonderful artistic community with a lot of great musicians. It's kind of like a little secret for musicians.

I think that I, because of student government and because of working in Baltimore, knew how to be creative with very little resources.