Quotes About Creativity

When you're a mid-list writer, it pays to write fast.

I've had some great gigs and had horrible ones. I always look at the horrible ones, and think there's got to be something in this that I can use later in my show. It all pays off in the end.

I think the death knell for any musician is getting a job that you like and pays enough that you just stay there forever.

Everyone pays lip service to this whole idea of doing more new plays, and nobody ever does it.

It's all run by one person, but, real talk, Brandon McCartney is a book author, the Based God is perfect and Lil B is the trendsetter, the person that everyone follows and pays attention to.

When your hobby becomes a full-time job that pays you and the people around you, it's not fun anymore.

The thing I love about making movies is the peace of mind that I know I don't have to be perfect the first time. I can be perfect the second time or the third time.

Before I became famous I had a very full life, and that gave me a lot to pick from. I always use everything. It always comes in handy. Working with animals... Well, I just enjoyed that. That was the most peaceful time.

I thought when I started meditation that I was going to get real calm and peaceful and it's going to be over. It's not that way; it's so energetic. That's where all the energy and creativity is.

My sets are not peaceful. It's a beautiful catastrophe. I am running around like a headless chicken. I don't sleep because I am writing. It's manic.

I'm extremely grateful that I found writing, but it doesn't make it any more peaceful.

I didn't do myself any favours. I would be resentful of my own ideas even before I'd said them out loud. But music was always the most consistent and peaceful thing for me. So I taught myself to be my harshest critic rather than just a mean voice in the back of my head.

I feel like all artists have to come to L.A. at least once because it's just beautiful. It's peaceful.

Most designers work up to a peak. They do some great stuff, and then it's just junk.

I have two young children, and I will say that motherhood is its own peak, just like in the process of writing: one climbs and is continuously moving with each book. Becoming a mother is the greatest connection I've ever felt to being spiritual.

'The Disaster Artist' book is the peak of my career in many ways, but there's something so rewarding about creating something from scratch.

Yeah, I feel as an artist, making a movie is the top of the food chain - that's the peak, the climax of everything.

That was always our favorite type of story, and that's the stuff we fell in love with. The peak of those type of ordinary-meets-extraordinary stories was in the '80s.

The film itself, and my role as Moses, will always remain one of the creative peaks of my career.

The best thing I can make is a peanut butter-and-jelly sandwich.

Fashion is definitely important. It's like peanut butter and jelly with hiphop music, you know what I'm saying? So, it's a part of you, a part of yourself as a person.

I had done plays, and Hindi theatre pays peanuts.

If it's a whole show of my own, I'll do more of what I think Del Shannon is. But for shows like Disneyland, I'll just do mainly hits. That's what they want to hear. I don't want to bore people. If I wanted that much to play nothing but 12 new songs, then I should go do it in a bar somewhere for peanuts.

Fats - very funny man, but every note that he played was like a pearl.