Quotes About Creativity

It is always encouraging and kind when people say nice things about my work but I know that it is not me that did it then and it is not me that is doing it now. It is God living in me and for that I will always be grateful.

It's true what people say - that actors are the closest thing there is to children. They play.

A lot of people say I wouldn't have a down day, but you look at the music and there's real melancholy.

You know that's history, that's why some people say that my stuff is retro, but I don't agree.

It's funny, in some of the interviews I've seen that were done for the film, some people say things like, 'Oh, I was never a very big Jim Woodring fan. I've never thought his work was that great.'

People say there's a book in everyone but I'm not sure there is. There might be a pamphlet in me.

People say if you're doing an art project, that's different from a book, but I honestly don't see it. I try and try, and I just don't.

I don't understand why people make me want to make music that's a join-the-dots thing by numbers. I find it really difficult when people say, 'Aw, you should have made a really big hip hop record, that would have been really good for you' or, 'You should have made a song like Lily Allen, that would have been so great.'

People say I am the king of painful shoes.

People say you make your best work when you're in despair and all that, and at your lowest - but for me, I think happiness makes you positive, and I think that's a good creative place to write from.

I don't want to say I hate remixes, because I don't, but I hate what instantly comes to mind now when people say 'remixes.'

Many people say to me, particularly about my dance writing, 'It sounds just like you.' But it sounds just like me after I've made it sound like me.

If you're convinced as an artist of what you're doing, the only move is to, no matter what people say or what management says or your best friends say or people on Facebook, do what you do, and people will find their way to it.

I am a laptop boy. People say: 'Where's your studio?' I say: 'It's in my laptop, in my rucksack.'

People say it's cathartic to write a book, but it turned out to be quite painful!

Jimi Hendrix played loud and free, Sergeant Pepper was real to me.

There are... certainly more innovations on 'Revolver'... but the truth of the matter is 'Sgt. Pepper' has something that was just completely different and unique at that moment.

The Beatles showed with 'Sgt. Pepper's' that you can make an album out of anything, just make it seem like it's connected.

I'm a big Red Hot Chili Peppers fan.

You have to be very careful how you insert new stuff, 'cause people want to hear the old stuff. It's like cooking, you know? You can't put too many peppers into the eggs... otherwise it's going to be distasteful.

I listened to all the Misfits albums growing up and Red Hot Chili Peppers, too.

There's only one rule in stand-up, which is that you have to be funny. Yet 99 per cent of comics look and talk exactly the same.

Artists aren't really people. And I'm actually 40 per cent papier mache.

One thing I learn - I've been in practice now for half a century or more, and the most important ingredient for an architect to do a good building is to have a good client. I think a client counts for as much as fifty per cent.