Quotes About Creativity

I have become infected, now that I see how beautifully a book is coming out of all this.

I write fast, I write beautifully, I write convincingly.

All I can say is that I did admire 'The Lives of Others', which I thought was really about something and beautifully done.

I don't like totally free jazz, unless it's done by somebody like Coltrane, who did bebop and cool jazz, so he was allowed to go out there.

If the whole idea, in the original bebop days, was to get to soloing, then that's all it should be about.

I was doing the Klaus Schulze noise-kid thing before it became interesting to people.

I can't believe we've got away with becoming this huge band. And we still haven't done anything I think is that good yet.

I don't want to do children's music. I write kids songs, but the kids songs I write are for my kids - like when I'm putting them to bed. We sing some song that we made up but I don't want to make a record like that.

I try to make films that I find exciting. It makes me want to get out of bed at five in the morning, have my make-up done and play for the rest of the day.

You have to do something when you're lying in bed. So you play with your mind.

I'm a bit of an insomniac. I'm always thinking. I've got a lot of ideas for lyrics and shows. I have a notepad by the side of the bed and voice recorders around the house.

She had the kids during the day and I would have them at night. That way they were never alone. I would put the kids to bed, and then I had nothing to do and nobody to talk to, so I would write.

I used to be locked up in my bedroom for hours, just listening to music, making some of my own, doodling and writing poetry.

When I was very little, I probably wanted to be more normal. I probably wanted the Laura Ashley bedroom, and instead I got thrift-store everything.

I'm still a kid in his bedroom, writing songs and playing them.

I made a lot of the first album on a laptop in my bedroom after college and after work.

I just used to make up stories for the kids at bedtime and my wife goes, 'you should start putting that stuff down.' It's such a joy to do.

What we're always looking for in students is who they are, and I think that's something that happens on the 'Sewing Bee.'

I don't get so much inspiration from other musicians. Especially alive musicians. Late musicians are good - Bach, Beethoven - yes, good.

I think a great piece, whenever it was written, gets under our skin, makes us feel something. That's what Beethoven was trying to do.

I never really tell anyone what I'm writing beforehand because I usually don't know what it will be.

When I was in high school, I used to beg my teachers to let me create films and plays instead of writing essays. I think they were at least happy I was excited about school.

When I began making films, they were just movies: 'What's the new movie? What are you doing?' Now they're called 'adult dramas.'

Until I began to learn to draw, I was never much interested in looking at art.