Quotes About Creativity

Where's your will to be weird?

I think in art, but especially in films, people are trying to confirm their own existences.

If my poetry aims to achieve anything, it's to deliver people from the limited ways in which they see and feel.

Listen, real poetry doesn't say anything; it just ticks off the possibilities. Opens all doors. You can walk through anyone that suits you.

Where's your will to be weird?

Listen, real poetry doesn't say anything; it just ticks off the possibilities. Opens all doors. You can walk through anyone that suits you.

Nearly every time I strayed from the herd, I've made a lot of money. Wandering away from the action is the way to find the new action.

Ideas can be life-changing. Sometimes all you need to open the door is just one more good idea.

You know you have had a productive day when you run out of semen.

I channel the rote and the new and unseen. My head has always been the busiest of crossroads, a festival of happy and unhappy arrivals. In the hours before daybreak when I was a boy, god sent me words as visitors.

I'm a firm believer that in-depth subjects can be better handled in a fantasy setting. ... Let's face it, traveling to some far off land is a terrific way to break the mold, to do something different. Isn't that why we go on vacations?

I believe you will discover the horizons of my imaginings far wider than you would suspect, Lord Chaos. You address omnipotence. Tread carefully.

Write visually or die!

Children's books, even good picture books, are much richer than ordinary home or classroom conversation

That Moorish architecture is all over the place, of course. It affects me everywhere I see it, as it does so many people. But Brand Library was a special place to me, and I know I've paid homage to it many times in my drawings.

Music doesn't lie. If there is something to be changed in this world, then it can only happen through music.

I was trying to do too many things at the same time, which is my nature. But I was enjoying it, and I still do enjoy it.

Rock is so much fun. That's what it's all about–filling up the chest cavities and empty kneecaps and elbows.

You have to forget about what other people say, when you're supposed to die, or when you're supposed to be loving. You have to forget about all these things. You have to go on and be crazy. Craziness is like heaven.

I've been imitated so well I've heard people copy my mistakes.

You have to go on and be crazy. Craziness is like heaven.

All I'm gonna do is just go on and do what I feel.

All I'm writing is just what I feel, that's all. I just keep it almost naked. And probably the words are so bland.

Imagination is the key to my lyrics. The rest is painted with a little science fiction.