Quotes About Creativity

When I started working on the sounds and music of 'Breaking the Rules,' I figured that I am really good at it so I was happy.

I didn't really care about sales figures. I just wanted to get things off my chest.

I literally view wrestling as the time when I was playing with action figures. You can make anything out of it. You can make it be fun.

Often the most important moment in the design process is figuring out what the right question is.

I feel like the first record was really finding my feet, figuring out what music I wanted to make... Now that I've done that, I feel like I've got a much clearer idea of what I want to sound like and what I want to discover. It's exciting.

I have always loved story - I escaped within it as a child, I read every day, I love figuring out the complex layers of an author's work.

I liked the challenge of designing and building things, figuring out how something works and how to make it better or apply it in a different way.

We were really into what Cliff Martinez did with 'Drive;' we were into what Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross were doing with David Fincher. When I read about how they worked with David Fincher, they're composing hours and hours of music and then he's working and figuring it out.

I leave a lot open so I can fill it in later. If I don't have any ideas right away, I can fill it in later.

I fill up the well of stories in my head - without ever knowing I'm doing it.

I love books that give you space to climb inside there. And you have to run to keep up in places, and you have to fill in a lot of blanks yourself. So it almost becomes your story.

I have always written. I was one of those kids who would always fill exercise books with girls and telepathic ponies.

I'm not as clever as J.J. Abrams and those guys who fill it with all of these things for people to find.

It may never happen, but I'd love to make a movie and not be rushed or concerned about shooting too much film. Probably a fantasy, but it would be nice. It would also be cool to fill a movie with all my favorite songs, but music is so damn expensive. We can't all be Cameron Crowe.

But I just think we've got such a continuity with what we're doing that most people come in and fill in the blanks. And sometimes we leave a lot of blanks to be filled.

I have about 20 sketchbooks from my childhood filled with drawings, but I'd only have a page here or there where I was trying to figure out how to do comics.

I filled the margins of my schoolbooks with lyrics.

The world I was born into was one filled with music.

New York seems to be absolutely filled with brilliant people.

I'm a lazy guy. I can't focus for too long. I'd rather hear a record that has no filler.

I don't just like fillers, and I never put a filler on a record. I mean, I want every song on every album that I do to be a potential single.

I don't think it matters how fast you write. It's how long you thought about it. I like to think of it as a well filling up. I think about it until the well is full, and then I let go.

When I'm making sentimental trancey fluffiness, I like to have some equally saccharine aromas filling the room.

I love my painting - it fills me with passion. But it's not something I expect anyone else to love.