Quotes About Creativity

Some of those songs, you really have to bite them. You challenge yourself, you challenge the audience, you do something different. People weren't expecting it.

I know a lot of people weren't expecting 'BLACKSummers'Night' to be what it was, just like a lot of people weren't expecting 'Embrya' to be what it was. People will listen to what I've been a part of and see what I've done.

It's hard when people are expecting things from you, and all you're trying to do is write songs that you like for yourself.

Commercial theater, in its agenda to appeal to everybody, is often at the expense of the unique vision of the artist.

You don't need to buy expensive cosmetics; almost anything will do if you know how to apply it.

I went to art school for four years to learn a very expensive lesson - that there are many other artists who are way better than me.

A lot of people assume that the expensive ideas are the most effective ones, but that is simply not true.

I think of all my movies as home movies! It's just that some are more expensive than others.

I'd say probably the most expensive costumes I've ever made were the costumes in 'The Planet of the Apes,' because of the research and development that went into them and the amount of layers.

The more I go on in this career of making albums, writing songs and playing music, the more I think of each album as a movie. I really wanted to make a film, but making a film is much more expensive than making a record.

The more screenwriting you do, the more you become aware that particular scenes aren't going to end up in the movie because they're too expensive. That has perhaps changed the way I think about writing novels, actually, because now I write expensive scenes whenever I can.

Yes, films need to make their money back - it's an expensive business, and people need to be paid for what's involved - but just because you can, it doesn't mean you should.

Drag isn't always about expensive rhinestone gowns; it's about what's entertaining.

It's expensive being in a band, way cheaper buying a laptop.

In art school, you learn that design is much more than the look and feel of something - it's the whole experience.

I experienced a lot of things while I was working with Dibakar Banerjee.

I've experienced writer's block, but never for more than a few days.

MTV lets us do whatever we want. For me, there is freedom in serving an experienced client who knows what they want and has the money to do it. MTV is that for us.

I think every writer will tell you that their characters are always partially themselves: who I am and what I've experienced. It's always there in part of my characters.

I tend to write from a personal place, and most of the time when I'm writing by myself, it's coming from something I've experienced.

I believe in adventure and imagination, and I got that from my parents and the things I experienced as a child.

Running a business is incredibly hard, especially as a creative person, because you're extricated from the creative very quickly, and that is really hard. Obviously, I have experienced that first hand.

It'll never get old to hear a song that I wrote on the radio or to hear what someone experienced when they heard a song I wrote.

I secretly wish I had experienced advertising in the 'Mad Men' period.