Quotes About Creativity

When a lot of people think about how to be business-savvy as an artist, they think about how to brand themselves. At the end of the day, that stuff doesn't really help you. People know when you're being fake.

I really like 'Community.' I like the way they're allowed to have a week when they go crazy and use stop-frame animation or a different pastiche. There's an episode with a fake clip show.

A lot of the time, I read something I've written, and I think, 'Well, that's competent. It's not exactly breaking any boundaries. It's not exactly transgressive. It's just a bunch of fake people in a room talking to each other. But maybe there's a value to that.'

An artist should not fall in love with another artist.

I have fallen back in love with music, which has allowed me to get back to my roots and create sounds without borders.

Becoming a writer, and then a director, was taking my creative life in my own hands, and wanting to have stories that I wanted to put out into the world - and I have fallen in love with directing.

Moving to Trinidad was a great experiment. I never knew what it would do to my work or even if it would be accepted by people and not be seen as me just falling off the edge of the earth.

There's some bohemian part of me where the idea of falling back on something meant I expected to fail.

Most music that you hear is in synch with itself. We were experimenting with the music falling out of synch with itself and even though it is out of synch you mind can still understand what it is meant to be doing.

I often have trouble falling asleep at night, so when I'm lying in bed I think up stories. That's where I do a lot of my thinking. I also get a lot of ideas while I'm reading - sometimes reading someone else's stories will make me think of one of my own.

I have a very childish attitude to books - a very non-analytic enthusiasm... like Alice falling down the chute.

I ended up falling in love with the whole movie-making experience.

Movies are magical. Sometimes it just works, it catalyzes, and everything falls into place, and no one knows exactly how or why.

Going through the Chagrin Falls school system, I always thought I was going off to art school.

I've developed this routine at home. I wait for the kids to go to bed; then my wife falls asleep. Then, it's dark and quiet enough for me to work on songs.

I used to do my own make-up. I used to have this doll that had those big eyelashes on the top and bottom, and I think I copied her when I was doing my eyes, putting false eyelashes on the bottom as well as the top. So I came up with that look myself.

Making fake biography, false history, concocting a half-imaginary existence out of the actual drama of my life is my life.

The writing that I have found to be most false is the writing that doesn't offer hope.

Creativity is not about the fame.

I love acting, but I'm not too crazy about money or fame. They don't drive me.

I think, when you're doing a column and blogging every day, you get familiar with the sound of your own voice.

I've never played Dungeons & Dragons, but I'm actually pretty familiar with it.

I can only speak for myself and my own music, because that is what I am most familiar with, and I write about things that I am living or experiencing.

Everything I write doesn't appear to be biography until later. I often say that I've never written about anything I've experienced. Of course, that's not true. But it doesn't appear familiar to me at all. And maybe that's because I have to be in a kind of coma in order to write. If it appeared familiar, I wouldn't.