Quotes About Creativity

It's head and heart. I like to feed both. I always wanted to be an actor. But the cultural-intellectual side of things has always excited me. I wouldn't want to let it go.

It's still as exciting to play records I've not heard before as it was when I was young. There's not much that makes me feel like that besides making music. And they definitely feed into each other.

I hope it isn't exclusively true, but I often find that collaboration is the best way... to reach my highest musical place. Because I get so inspired by another good musician; I feed off that.

If you work all the time, you don't have many life experiences to feed back into your work.

When I sat down to write 'Rules of Civility,' I didn't write it for anybody but myself. I wasn't trying to make my mark or make money. I wasn't anxious about feeding my kids or whether my father would be proud of me.

I tried writing a novel, but plays were the thing that kept feeding me, asking me to come back, sit down and be with them.

When you're a writer, everything that interests you feeds into your work.

For me, making music is a continuous learning experience, and I think that it feeds itself.

I can't really stop doing the music because it really feeds me.

Every experience feeds an actor, and I've learned that depression is all around us.

There's no feeling like performing. It's magical, it's so rewarding, and it just feeds this special little part of your soul.

I don't know if I actually respect other artists as people as much as I should. I look at their work as excellent data that feeds my mind as nature feeds my body.

I love being a mother. I think it's the best thing I've ever done, and I personally feel that it's had a very positive effect on my work. I think it's an encouraging force for creativity, it feeds creativity - it did for me, certainly.

Any song I don't feel good about, I shelve. Anything you ever hear me sing, it's because I want to.

I don't think you can create art out of anger; it has to come out of some form of understanding. You have to feel good about who you are and that you could do something to change things.

I mean there's no other feeling than when you hear a great hip-hop song. You feel good. If you lose that as an artist, you lose a part of your passion.

I want people to feel the times where they don't feel good. You should dive into those emotions, because that's what I do with my music.

I love the idea that we can dress all sorts of people, and they feel great in the dresses, and that make us feel good.

I usually write about what makes me feel good.

I must admit, strong films are more interesting to me, as, by the end of the day's shooting, you feel good.

I don't end up playing a lot of likable characters, so I find myself living in a lot of unlikable skin. As a result of that, I don't always feel good. I get a lot more catharsis from taking pictures or painting or making short films.

Fighting to get up in the morning, fighting to get on stage, fighting to make music that makes people feel good when I don't - that's been a struggle.

I just want to make music that makes people feel good about themselves.

I like cut-outs, I love knitwear. I just love things that make you feel good. I love looking sexy.