Quotes About Creativity

I always write my music based on what is going on in my life at the time.

We had a very small practice studio in the basement.

When I was 20 years old and first with the Steppenwolf Theatre Company, we had an 88-seat theater in a basement and no money.

I was lucky on 'Arli$$.' I basically got to do whatever I wanted because HBO is great for that.

Basically my whole life is music, that's all I do 24-7.

I've basically thought of myself as a writer, whether I was or not.

But basically, I'm trying to write a fun story.

Emotions are the basics of any art form!

I think what we have at Atelier Crenn, which I think is good, is that the basics are very traditional.

My movies are important on an economic basis, on an artistic basis.

You know, my movies are important on an economic basis, on an artistic basis.

You have to create the show anew, and find it anew, on a nightly basis.

I didn't play a lot of bass as a kid, but I sang it.

I play bass. I don't have to go out there and screech.

It's really hard for me to sing and play bass.

Today, somewhere in America, there's a kid who's got a laptop and a guitar and a couple of his friends he's putting together to play drums and bass, who's gonna change the way we say things, the way that we dress, the way we view things, the music we hear, everything.

More traditional guitar, bass, drums - it's not something completely natural to me. It's, in a way, exotic.

I think I've been playing bass for as long as I've played guitar, and I love them both.

I play bass, and I wanted to be a musician.

Being a bass player in a band without a drummer for seven, eight years has been kind of weird.

I don't think anyone would bat an eye if I wrote a song.

I'm a bat. All my greatest, creative ideas come at night. So I hardly ever sleep.

I would like to see more films being made with people of color behind the camera and in front of the camera, because the more times at bat we have, the better we get.

Maybe because I didn't have a huge film career right off the bat, I've been able to create something different, which is so important to me. That's myself, my idea of who I am.