Quotes About Creativity

On the song 'Dangerous,' it feels like a teenager picking up a new instrument and writing something with all of that naive excitement.

As a teenager I had friends who had little music studios in their bedrooms and garages. I'd go and play around; very soon, my hobby became a passion.

I've been writing since I was very young, even before I was a teenager. As far as I'm concerned, I am a writer - whether my writing's spoken or written in a blog, paper, book or printed on the side of a submarine.

When I was a teenager, I wanted to be a rock star, not an actor. It means I can do what I want on my own terms.

I have a lot of tattoos. My first tattoo I had when I was a teenager was just a little heart. I am very friendly with a great artist, Scott Campbell, and I started going to him to get tattoos. I'm very spontaneous about what I get.

Since I was a teenager, I wanted to be in a band with my mates: my pure image of a band.

I dressed like Leslie Caron as a teenager: soft school pleats, Peter Pan collars.

The music that I'm known for is quiet and gentle, although when I was growing up and as a teenager, I was playing the opposite - I was screaming and playing bass and those loud electric guitars.

Every teenage artist out there is mostly talking about boys, and I think there's so much more to being a teenager than just boys.

I knew I wanted to make a movie that hadn't really existed in a while in terms of being a teenager.

As a teenager, I was really interested in drama and art. I did painting and drawing. I did some acting and loved theater.

When it's all said and done, jazz with a capital J is where I'm coming from. Dexter Gordon, Billie Holiday, Miles Davis, Charlie Parker, Thelonious Monk - that's what I really studied when I was a teenager and what really fueled my passion.

Sometimes I'll make face masks at home, and it's fun. I love that. I've been doing it since I was a teenager.

When I was a teenager, I never knew anything about art. I think in South Africa at that stage, no one was really exposed to it. There were no museums that had great artists in them.

I've been playing since I was a teenager, and I put out a few albums when I was younger. When 'Crazy Heart' took off, it gave me another reason to get into music in a more serious fashion.

When I was a teenager, I wanted to be a screenplay writer or a photographer. First question people asked me: 'Who do you know? Any contacts?'

The first songs I made brought me to the Grammys. I was a five-times nominated teenager off voice memos and songs that were clearly recorded off different mics.

I'm always full of ideas. I just haven't stopped doing what I did as a teenager. Now I just happen to get paid for it!

I realised as a teenager that I was destined for a creative life and found that fashion design was something I enjoyed and was a potentially successful career path.

Justin Hayward was a teenager when he was drafted into the Moody Blues in 1966. He brought with him one song he had written for his girlfriend. This was called 'Nights in White Satin,' which subsequently made a fortune for a lot of people.

My father was a director, and my mother and grandparents were actors, so I spent a great deal of my time as a teenager trying to get away from the theatre.

I started with the organ and drums, and I later got into drum machines as a teenager.

I was writing my first book when I was in college. I was a teenager.

I wrote 'Love Is Dead' when I was a super-depressed teenager.