Quotes About Creativity

I'm pretty sure this is it for the teen movie thing. It's so frustrating to read when you get to page 20 and you're like, Oy! It's the same thing again!

I write edgy, sexy teen romances, and that's what I'll continue to do.

I've always enjoyed teen characters, and kids as well. For whatever reason, I seem to have an ability to do it sort of well, and I enjoy doing it.

I think there's actually a benefit to working with teen actors: they've got such boundless energy, and everybody is willing to try different things.

I went down the creative path in my teen years, and when I was in high school, in my junior year, I would perform at this program that was very similar to 'School of Rock.' That was when I started writing and realized that's what I wanted to do.

I'll write teen stories as long as people will let me. I'll also be excited for the day when I'm told I can no longer write teen stories.

I got a guitar when I was 14. I made really, really, really bad music as a teen. I learned to play Smashing Pumpkins and Hole songs.

I wanted to be an actor since I was three years old; I would dance to Madhuri Dixit's 'Ek do teen' in front of the mirror and recite dialogues from 'Kal Ho Naa Ho,' 'Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham... ,' 'Kuch Kuch Hota Hai...'

My guitar playing was born from playing in my teenage heavy rock bands.

I had this talent for these stupid little teenage songs.

I'm a songwriter who's put my childhood memories and teenage angst into songs.

I see it as more of a teenage activity than, you know, she's only 11, but you know, I think it's great that she knows so many girls who want to play music. And I see it more as a teen activity than I do as going into music.

I actually got to write with one of my musical heroes, a guy named Raine Maida from Our Lady Peace. I got to sit down and write some songs with him, and that was pretty heavy. I listened to Our Lady Peace growing up. It got me through the teenage angst.

It's insane that, since the Beatles and Dylan, it's assumed that all musicians should do everything themselves. It's that ridiculous, teenage idea that when Mick Jagger sings, he's telling you something about his own life. It's so arrogant to think that people would want to know about it anyway!

I tend to boycott all teenage reading while I'm trying to write my own stuff.

My parents constantly tried to talk me out of being an artist. They had gone through the whole journey with my sister and just wanted me to have a normal teenage life.

There's a lot of little 'Bonnie-isms' in 'Teenage Dream' that I was hoping to keep for myself.

My aunt made stuff; my mom was creative, so I was surrounded by that. When I moved to England, it was '75, and everything was happening. My whole teenage life is England, glam rock and David Bowie and Sex Pistols and Iggy Pop, all that stuff.

I feel like it's just so important for child and teenage development to have music in your life, honestly. And I just think it's really, really, really rewarding to me, personally, just emotionally, to know that I might have brought that into someone's life. And that just means a lot to me, because I know how important it can be.

I don't want to be that artist who's doing the teenage angst thing and draw it out my whole career.

At 16 I was living in the Congo, and, you know, it's your teenage time. I really wanted to find a way to express myself, so I started to write songs in the Congo, and I think that's why my music is quite open, with a lot of different influences.

As a little girl, I used to write stories, but by my teenage years, I got out of the habit.

Like many authors, I caught the writing bug during my teenage years. I don't remember the exact day or year, but I remember that reading S.E. Hinton's 'The Outsiders' sparked my interest in writing.

As long as I can remember, I've been writing - first poems, then stories, and by my early teenage years I was also in love with sailing.