Quotes About Creativity

When it comes to the lyrics, I write about my own perception of things and use characters for that.

You can accept that perception of yourself that you're getting too old to be interesting or buyable. Or you can kind of do what you do and see what happens.

Arguably, no artist grows up: If he sheds the perceptions of childhood, he ceases being an artist.

I will not bow down to others' perceptions of me; I will only rise in the name of art, love and music.

The fun of being in the pop world is you can really play with people's perceptions of what the word pop means.

These are ideas. I could say that they just came to me, but it would be more accurate to say that I went to them. Ideas - and new connections between ideas - lead you away from commonly held perceptions of reality. Ideas lead you out here. Ideas lead you into the darkness.

One of the things I love about writing is the way you can use what you know and what you've experienced, without actually writing about yourself. I've given many of my experiences and perceptions to many of the characters in the book, but none of them is me.

My aim is to change people's perceptions of what a hat can look like in the 21st century.

I really just wanted to play the drum set and match that. I was never really into the percussion thing.

I play the piano and that's how I learned about music. I then taught myself the guitar, drums, percussion and various other things, such as the bazooka, the mandolin, the Theremin, the alpine horn, the didgeridoo.

I mean, I can sit down with a guitar, and in fact, we do two, three songs with just guitar and percussion.

I played djembe, percussion, keyboards and I sang.

I've figured out what to do with my hands... onstage. I'm a percussion player, so I grab a tambourine as much as I can.

I'm more a percussion instrument than a dancer.

Rock music is not meant to be perfect.

Perfect is boring: Beauty is irregular.

Perfect isn't normal, nor is it interesting. I have no features without makeup. I am pale. I have blond lashes. You could just paint my face - it's like a blank canvas. It can be great for what I do.

I love a good burger, and when I was brainstorming pies, I thought, hey - burgers and pies are both perfect for eating out of your hands.

When I'm playing, I play what I want, but I make sure that the crowd is going to love it at the same time. It's like a balancing act, a mix of two, a perfect circle... if you do it right.

I just wanted to do my own albums where nobody could tell me what to do. Roc Nation was the perfect fit because I could do what I wanted to do.

Don't you know that every perfect life would mean the end of art?

When I record an album I'm trying to get as close as possible to that perfect moment.

Perfect Night is minimalistic and that's what makes it so forceful.

In my perfect world, I go off and make films, and then come home to my farm.