Quotes About Creativity

Not all art is great; most of it's rubbish.

Business people want things to be safe but that's rubbish to me. In music nothing should be safe.

I don't know if I can see myself writing another 'Saw' film. It's such a special part of my life, and I almost don't want to ruin it by going back.

When it comes to art in general now, we've become so aware of our influence. We know when people are listening, when people are watching. It's not healthy. We start creating with that in the background of our mind. I think it's ruined my mind.

Talking about how I might write the next book is like talking about whether or not to have sex. Any dithering ruins it.

These days I am ruled by doubt, and that is a difficult place to write from.

I didn't know that there were many rules in music when I first started writing.

When we did that kind of stuff our only rule was... Well, we didn't have any rules, really, but my rule, because I was the drinker of the group, was not at any time of the day before the night we're working.

Everything I've done has always been my own made up world with its own rules and its own made up stories.

When it's low-budget, and you have one other person on the set, you have to make rules.

As autobiographical as say the stuff on 'Rumours' was, I don't think we thought of it as such when we were writing it.

When you're a writer on a show, your job is to write in the show runner's voice, really.

When the world is running down, you make the best of what's still around.

Music runs my life. I can't imagine going a day without it.

Every comic delves into the personal archive when their imagination runs dry.

I love fashion and appreciate it so much, and I feel like it's moving artwork going down a runway.

Every single time I perform 'River,' I just feel a huge rush of adrenaline and energy, and I remember writing it.

I'm not in any rush. I'm not somebody who, if I write a song, I get it out. That's not something I've ever really quite done.

I don't like to rush my music.

Acting gives me an adrenalin rush I don't get from anything else.

We've been involved in a lot of albums that were really rushed at the end.

I hate nothing more than feeling rushed to write a song or feeling like I have to write a song.

I don't believe in making a record and rushing it.

I've worked with David O. Russell.