Quotes About Creativity

You don't meet that many people that you can talk about Roots Manuva with, but that was my favorite in school, this record of his called 'Run Come Save Me.' When I first started writing lyrics, it came from that.

The world would be a duller place without Moulin Rouge.

I would absolutely love to do another Baz Luhrmann film, especially a 'Moulin Rouge' type picture.

I knew that the artists that I loved the most had something about them that was very unfiltered and very rough.

I had kind of a rough childhood, so I created my own reality.

I was at a pretty rough school, and the only thing I was good at was art.

I want to know exactly how the first few measures are going to go, and the rough shape of a movement or the whole piece and its essential character.

Literature led me to freedom, not the other way round.

For 12 years, I was playing writer's rounds.

I was always that girl who loved music and thought of music as an escape route.

I was a math and science kid in school, but I ended up going the route of writing and music in college.

I was the biggest Public Enemy fan - I think it's what inspired the aggression of N.W.A. We just took a different route lyrically.

I sing. I used to think singing is going to be the route, and I still sing to this day. I still try to write lyrics.

My music has given me a confidence I wouldn't have had if I had gone a different route.

Every time I run a route, I try to make it seem like I'm running a different route than I'm actually running so I can get open.

I actually found not having a routine was inspiration.

I like creating stuff and projects, but at the same time, I do like sometimes just having a routine with somebody else telling me where to go, what time to be there.

I don't want to do sing-and-dance routine. I believe script is the king, so I would go for powerful stories.

'Routine' was written on piano, and you can hear that. But then you listen to 'Happy Returns,' and you can tell it's definitely been written on guitar, with that singer-songwriter-y strumming quality.

I don't see how you can write well if you're not reading well at the same time. I think the only risk is reading too many books of one 'type' in a row.

I'm a higgledy-piggledy person in every way. On days that I work, I work for eight hours in a row, with my internet access entirely turned off, locked in my office.

People don't want to hear the same song 12 times in a row on an album.

I went through a period of watching probably too many Bergman films in a row. I felt like I'd discovered the answer to what cinema should be.

You only have to look at Manchester's Royal Exchange or Home to understand the huge energy outside London - there's enough talent around the country to have a Donmar and National in every city. It just comes down to money.