Quotes About Creativity

My work is always on display, and my life is always on display when I make my work.

Music isn't necessarily made to last, and there's always been disposable music.

There's just no great rock albums anymore. There's a lot of rock music out there, but it's very bland and disposable.

Honestly, so much of that EDM stuff is just so disposable.

Playing and listening to music gives you a sense of fulfilment because you have to put everything in you at its disposal.

As an actor, you need to use everything at your disposal.

I try stuff. I synthesize what's of value with some of the other things I have at my disposal.

It's a natural disposition for me to become muse-like in a relationship.

I would never dispute the fact that music is my greatest love.

I never wanted to be called a fan, and that's no disrespect to any artist who calls them fans, but I never wanted a boundary in between the people listening to my music and me - for them to feel like I'm doing something that they can't do.

I don't think Hollywood respects multi-camera television. Well, I don't think they disrespect it, but I don't think it gets respect for its artistry.

But it becomes disrespectful when the artist's process is not respected.

I break out in hives whenever I hear the word disrupt applied to cooking.

I don't want to disrupt anything. We never conceive of our products as disruptive - we don't look at something and say, 'Let's disrupt that.' It's always about how we can evolve this and make this better.

I think that black people making art, women making art, and certainly black women making art is a disruptive endeavor - and it's one that I enjoy extremely.

An artiste like me can never be satisfied because it is the dissatisfaction that helps me grow and achieve what I want to.

I was dissatisfied just being an actor.

I have friends who are writers who have had movies made of their books, and they are almost uniformly horrified about what's been done - or, at least, dissatisfied.

I'm a writer, so I like dissecting things.

Film is an art form. Dissecting and understanding it is a part of our own interest in humanity.

I don't like to discuss my work in a lot of detail; I'm afraid of dissecting it in a way that is not good for me.

Sometimes you come up with an idea when you're going out for a job, and then when you actually get into dissecting the world, you end up changing your approach, just because that's the way art goes sometimes.

I try not to think of actors as I'm writing because I think you do them a disservice by writing for things they've already done.

You've got to stick up for what you believe in. If you don't do that, you're doing a disservice to the audience, because you're making something really diluted. And if you do that when you're a guy, you're seen as artistic - 'difficulty' is seen as a sign of genius. But it's not the same for women.