Quotes About Creativity

'E.T.' began with me trying to write a story about my parents' divorce.

Work begets work. I've always taken the jobs - I've tried to take the jobs where the story is full or the characters are full.

Is an artist much more than a beggar?

Most of us can't even begin to imagine.

When I'm writing well, I feel happy. And when I go too long without writing, I begin to implode.

Write every day. Make writing a part of your life, but also don't be afraid of learning from others because I think you can. I still try to think of myself as a beginner because that way I can keep on learning.

I would sit in my dorm room and write songs. I loved it. I was learning to sing and play guitar. I was becoming a musician. I was the beginner who somehow could write a song.

There hasn't been any art yet. Art is just beginning.

All my work begins with drawings.

When you write scripts, it begins to feel like you're living in them.

I feel like you just need to keep writing until the writing itself just begins to take shape.

For me, fashion begins in New York.

I can't even say I've begun yet, but I'm trying on the idea that there is a book in my future.

Talking about your work all the time and to open up, you have to do all that. I have begun to find my fun in that as well.

After winning 'K-pop Star' and debuting as a singer, I had a team of people who helped me. But then I realized that to do my own music, there's work that I myself had to take care of and no one can do it on behalf of me. So I started writing my own music.

I was quite badly behaved at school - I remember cutting class - and acting was a way of channelling energy.

It was part of being a girl in the '60s that you were creative.

I don't remember being afraid of anything in making films.

I love being on the road with others, with a camera, but also being alone writing poetry.

I played a lot of dress-up in my room. I really liked being alone. I had a lot of friends, but I had an only-child, live-in-my-head personality.

I love playing music with people, but I also just love the art and meditation of being alone and working on stuff.

After all these years, being alone, creating your art and finding your way, finding the path I wanted to take, writing the songs, being more comfortable and confident in what I do, it's been actually an incredible joyride.

I was told at first that being different was a bad thing. Everywhere I went, it was just, 'You're too different'... And it turned out that being different was the best thing that ever happened to my career. It is why people travel to my shows. It's why people want to hear my story and buy my book.

Different is better. I get more jobs being different.