Quotes About Creativity

I mean, musical theater really informed so much of my life. It just so perfectly brings order to chaos, which is why we love theater.

My greatest high was to hit a ball well, to try to do it perfectly, to try different things, whether they came off or not.

If what you do in life is perform to open up eyes and minds, to make people laugh, then it better damn well be new! It shouldn't be just a repetitious 'Hey, I'm still here!'

I cannot with any real integrity perform songs I've done for 25 years. I don't need the money. What I need is to feel that I am not letting myself down as an artist and that I still have something to contribute.

Music and dance influence my style in a lot of ways. Sometimes I go off to work dressed up like I'm going to hit the stage and perform.

To me, at its best, that's what art should do, perform both the emotional and intellectual function.

'Firecracker' was such a fun song to write and to perform.

When I perform, I like to wear funky flats, leather boots or knee-high Converse with bright laces. Then I can dance and not worry about falling.

With every song I have a person in mind who, in a perfect world, would perform with me. Usually I end up not getting that person, and I'm forced to settle for someone else.

Environment is very important to me. Sometimes I have to perform during the day for festivals, and my music does not work in the daytime. It is nighttime music.

Right now I'm listening to a lot of different things but I listen to a lot of classical music. Eventually I would like to compose and perform classical.

When I perform, I like to immerse myself in the music, and I just try to get off on the diversity of music.

I always wanted to write as much as perform.

Some of the best songs that artists perform year after year are ones they hated.

When I write, I'm sort of old-fashioned in the sense that I like to write something that I feel I could just perform alone, obviously, because I do that a lot in concert.

I always wanted to perform. I remember being 5 years old and telling my parents to sit down as I was going to put on a play for them.

Usually I perform with dancers.

I always was a writer, but then I wanted to do stand-up because I thought that was a way that I could perform what I wrote.

I like the fact that I'm involved in a career that gives me so many different mediums to perform in.

I started singing when I was about 3 and dancing soon after. Mom just started looking for outlets where I could perform and availed herself of any opportunity she could in the mountains of North Carolina in the '70s.

I wrote a lot of plays when I was little, and I made everyone in the neighborhood perform them with me. I was probably a really annoying friend to have when I was little.

I went to a French immersion school, and French-Canadian improv is a big thing, and we had an improv team at school, and 12 of us would get up and make things up against other elementary schools. I'd always wanted to perform, and that was just another extension of it.

I just like to write and then perform.

That's what I've wanted to do my whole life, just act. When I was younger, I loved to entertain people. I always used to make up dance routines, do little plays. I love to perform, basically.