Quotes About Creativity

I've always been a great believer that you have to keep producing new things in order to keep life interesting - not only for ourselves, but for the audience as well. That's really always been our principle and way of working.

All writers have a love-hate relationship with writing. Performing is fun, too, but I wouldn't say it's my favorite. But the most fulfilling is producing.

I think there is a chance that Indian writers in America will start producing very interesting books in the years to come.

It's a lot easier producing for people or being in the background, and they can take all the fire from the front. But in order to express the ideas that I have without any kind of contamination, I thought it would be a cool thing to be out front.

The producing side is always a hard thing for me. I look at Flying Lotus and see producers dropping instrumentals, and I think I should do it myself. I just try to be an artist for myself. That way, it's a lot easier.

Producing albums is 100 per cent where I would love to be, later in my career.

You don't have to make something in order to retain your identity as an artist or a writer or a creative person. A lot of people think they have to be producing in order to maintain that identity.

A great thing, which I don't do enough, is to take a break from producing and try to just take stuff in, like go to the theater.

I think producing a record for other artists is almost like giving them advice, and I would say that it is easier to produce another artist than it is to produce yourself.

Producing a drama is particularly difficult.

I'm used to producing all of my projects, doing all the beats, and writing all the hooks.

From an early age, my favorite thing to read was novels. For years, when I was writing only nonfiction, still I was reading almost exclusively novels. It's weird to be producing something that you don't consume. It feels really alienating.

Producing has empowered me as an artist in a specific way. It's forced a certain kind of maturity.

You can't be an artist while you're producing, because you'll be over-critiquing the producer part.

When I was coming up, I was, and am, producing, mixing, mastering, and writing everything. I would say that all the time. For one, self-sufficiency is a message that should be put out there: you don't have to outsource everything. Two, I'm proud of it.

I like to consider myself an all-rounder, and I'm not trying to be King of the Scene or anything. I'd like to do everything, from writing film scores to producing pop albums.

I'm usually just writing lyrics alone in my room, but I'm happy to be producing and writing chords anywhere.

Eventually, my dad bought me a guitar for Christmas, and then I just went from there, man. I bought a drum kit a few years later and bought a bass, started producing, started singing.

I miss producing. I hate it when I do it, but I love it.

It's no secret that my favorite part of the process is making records; if I'm not making them with Flatts, then I'm out producing them on other folks.

It's so difficult to be conscious of a development of a style. You find yourself writing in a certain style, and the analysis of how you came to it can only ever be applied retroactively. You're never conscious of why you're producing it.

I love the studio. I love writing and producing both for us and for other people.

I'm always going to be heavy in producing. It's always going to come first. It never can't come first.

I chose producing because I didn't know how to play any instruments.