Quotes About Creativity

I try to see interviewing as performance art, and just take it as it comes.

It's always been performance art, but now it's on a different level.

We were doing performance art as far back as 1965, just not calling it that.

I've always been interested in the arts and chucked a science degree to study theatre and performance art because I was so enamored by it.

No one else has performed in a play after they've died, and I want to be the first person to do it.

We played for peanuts. But we did what we wanted to do, we heard what we wanted to hear, we performed what we wanted to perform, we learned what we wanted to learn.

I wrote my first play when I was nine. It was performed at Hampstead Theatre.

I painted sets before I ever performed.

My dad is a director/producer and my mom is a dancer; she performed with Alvin Ailey, but I didn't even think about becoming an actress.

I was a huge Muppet fan growing up. I want to bring it back to the early '80s Muppet movies, when the scripts could have been performed by humans.

There is a musical rhythm to great writing, especially if it's performed correctly.

Everything I've performed has been from my own head.

The first song we ever performed, actually, was an instrumental, which says a lot about how shy we are.

I always hate when, like, my favorite performer has a boring moment. Especially when they got mad hits.

I have thought about some kind of musical involving my music. That would be kind of interesting. I have thought of it in that way, as a creator of something, not so much a performer. So that's in my head.

I always considered myself a performer. It's what God gave me. It doesn't matter if one person hears it or a million.

There are so many factors that go into how you feel, as a performer, on any given movie, that it's really hard to identify which things are the things that help you be good, and which are the things that hinder you.

But as a writer and performer, I want to get paid for what I do.

I always felt of myself as a composer, performer, improviser. I've never called myself a jazz man. I make art.

As a performer, I groove to my own songs.

I look up to Mick Jagger because he's an amazing performer and he's such an individual. I respect him and admire him eternally.

I became a performer because it was what I enjoyed doing.

To put what you see on paper is the same as funneling what you feel through yourself as a performer.

The ego certainly is the biggest obstacle as an artist or performer, so any chance you get to destroy that is really healthy.