Quotes About Creativity

Most companies that are successful listen to people and see what they want and they make that. So when I used to make songs, I'd make mixtapes. The public would tell me what they like and then I would make songs based on what they like. That's how I knew 'Ridin' Dirty' was going to be big - they told me they liked this kind of music.

I love the idea of animation just because it removes the actor from the character, and you can be anything. I've been devouring 'Adventure Time' and 'Archer.' I'd love to get my hands dirty on either of those shows.

When I first started, it was a dirty word to say you made clothes for people to wear... I was a little ashamed of it. You didn't always feel you were this amazing creative force.

I have so many other things going on that if 'A Dirty Shame' is my last movie, that's OK.

There's been no two Dirty Projectors records that have had the same cast of characters every time.

I made, like, five records as Dirty Projectors before I got out of college. And then I put a band together when I got interested in going on tour around that time.

The only things Mick and I disagree about is the band, the music and what we do.

Once, Pina Bausch was about something, however disagreeable.

I didn't disappear; I started writing songs and worked behind the scenes.

The reason you do this stuff - comedy, plays, movies - is to be seized by something, to disappear in the service of an idea.

Someone who is an artist can say, 'I can create and can make what I create disappear.'

As a writer, I don't have a sense of my own position. I try to disappear and not to think of myself at all when I'm working.

I can't do a film where I appear in a song and then disappear.

I just tried to disappear and write songs.

I really love my chosen craft. No matter whether it's disappearing or disappeared from the mainstream, that's really been where my mind and heart is.

I could go in and make albums how Master P was doing it every three months but I don't want to do that. I could probably do it and make a lot of money and all that but I would disappoint myself.

I'm the kid who wanted to grow up and be Bugs Bunny. I was very, very disappointed when I realized I couldn't grow up and be a cartoon character.

For me, being a writer, you want to communicate with people, but if your goal is that every person is going to love what you do, then you're always going to be disappointed.

I'm disappointed by bands left and right, every day.

My poetry is the most disappointing thing for me that I've ever written. When I say I can write everything, I don't say I can write everything well.

I do love the musical form, although it's often disappointing.

I would have loved to have been an architect - which, actually, would have been a disaster.

I always tell myself every disaster is more material for my work and another anecdote to tell.

I really like 'Disaster Artist.'