Quotes About Creativity

I think it's quite easy to get caught up in the discussions about a show that people are having. But you have to tell the story you were going to tell.

I had the idea of 'Live From Daryl's House' way before I contracted Lyme disease.

Comparison is a disease. I never felt any competition, since I never compared myself to others. I only focus on my work. I never feel pressurised and do films in my style. Also, I'm very active since childhood, and that gives me the edge to always put my best.

The disenfranchised should be going to art school - not the franchised.

I know writers, and they seem to be the most disgruntled part of the art world.

Maybe I could have been good as a drawer if I had done it as much as I did writing, but it's more scary to draw. It's more revealing. You can't disguise yourself in drawing.

It is so common to write autobiographical fiction in which your own experience is thinly disguised.

There are 36 ways to tell this story. And all of them are disgusting.

I'm not sure why I'm so often disgusting on stage. I don't always know where it comes from.

Was 'Crucify Your Mind' dedicated to anybody? No, it was a generalization. 'A Most Disgusting Song' is like that, too.

When I was 27, if I didn't put 15 things in one dish I wasn't happy.

I would try doing a dish 30 different ways.

Your idea of that dish has evolved, and if you're a cook, you can start thinking in different ways about it, maybe even a different way than I think about it.

I love learning how to make new dishes.

One of my favorite dishes is this alfredo I make, and I make the sauce from scratch. I love making everything from scratch.

All my dishes are engineered.

They say, 'We will give you money, but we want you to play this or that.' And I always thought, 'If I'm going to do that, I might as well go back and be a dishwasher.'

I always knew what I wanted but just got a little disillusioned for a while. It was so difficult to understand what my music is.

Music, for me, was something I did because I was disillusioned after the Cold War's end and did not know what I wanted in life.

When Wes came back to Limp Bizkit, we really wanted to do something different. We wanted to make a core record that we didn't care who liked or who disliked.

Not to dismiss Gershwin, but Gershwin is the chip; Ellington was the block.

I think when you do stuff in a computer people tend to dismiss it. It also allows you to make a lot of stuff totally not connected with reality because you're not limited by any kind of reality.

Before Arthur, I'd dismissed altogether writing fiction. You only have so many semi-sharp arrows in your quiver, I'd told myself, and I was not going to be able to write a novel.

I think a lot of the time, comic art is dismissed as... not art, and comic writing is dismissed as not literature.