Quotes About Creativity

Writing for me is cutting out the fat and getting to the meaning.

When you're fat and comfortable, your music is going to sound fat and comfortable.

Books are a little better movies than just screenplays because there's more fat on the bone. There's more character development. There's more stuff to pick from.

I keep a big, fat dictionary with me while writing.

Reverence is fatal to literature.

Art is a revolt against fate. All art is a revolt against man's fate.

My mandate to myself since I've been involved in these movies was 'make every single movie different, so there's never 'X-Men' fatigue.'

I'd have liked to have been another Faulkner, of course.

When I was at Capitol - and this was not Capitol's fault - I was aiming, you know. I would listen to country radio and go, 'What version of me does radio want?'

We may not like our times or many aspects of the time we live in but that is not the fault of art as such.

An artist is his own fault.

I write because it makes God happy that I write. I sing because it makes God happy that I sing. And if it makes God's people happy, then all the better. But if it fails to do so, it's probably my fault.

You must speak the vision of your project in a way that convinces people to pay for it. If they won't pay for it, that is the artist's fault. It is my fault. It is your fault. It is not the executive's fault or the world's.

I could find faults with all my albums because that's just a part of being an artist - it's hard being a human being, isn't it?

Fashion faux pas should be celebrated. I enjoy them because it means we're not all clones.

I admire actresses who are willing to jettison the easy route toward exposure and commercial success as an actor in favor or a slow burn, choosing projects carefully, and building an artistic practice over time that feels specific to who they are as artists.

I am not in favor of making remakes.

Every condition must be favorable, or I do not work and will not.

'Bohemian Rhapsody' is my all-time favorite.

My favorite book is always the one I'm working on at the moment.

I think the Wachowskis are two of my favorite people on the planet; they're the best.

I love 'Project Runway.' It's my favorite show!

I'd have to say that my favorite thing is writing a song that really says how I feel, what I believe - and it even explains the world to myself better than I knew it.

Cartoons are probably my favorite thing to do.