Quotes About Creativity

Writing is writing. It is all about telling stories, and I've been doing that for so long, in all realms, that it all feels like the same thing to me anyway.

I was impersonating people way, way, way early, as far back as I can remember. And I would do people on my street for my parents, I remember. And in school, I did the same thing with all the teachers. It was just like, I mean, it was something I loved to do. I don't think there was a time when I wasn't doing it. I was always doing it.

Whenever you work with someone who you idolize, you realize... he's just a person trying to make a movie as best he knows how. And that doesn't look so different from other people trying to do the same thing.

Any time you take a movie to stage, you can't do the same thing; it's not gonna work.

If you're making a film, you've got to have one eye to the audience and one eye to what excites you about it, and sometimes it's not the same thing.

I've always experimented with my look. Growing up, I thought it was so weird that people dressed alike and all bought the same things.

I am a day dreamer. I visualise a lot of things at the same time.

I don't sample. I'm not like one of these guys who concoct some beat on my sampler and just turns it in.

I can definitely make sample size work.

I've always, in some way, incorporated sampling into my work.

I don't do that much sampling. I create all my own sounds.

I love sampling, and RZA loves sampling, too.

I used to hate sampling, but it was basically because everyone was getting paid but us. But when they began to do the legislation and get it right, I realized that the kids just did something that, if maybe we were smart enough, we would have done it as well.

I think if I wanted to get to a point where I could actually grow in my music, I had to almost step away from sampling so much and start making the kind of music that people wanted to sample.

I'm not much of an art guy but I really do love Shelby and Sandy's work - they look like they're made on a computer but they're hand-painted.

Music kept me sane between acting jobs.

Writing is how I stay sane. It's completely necessary.

You know early on when you're given a gift that can keep you sane. That's what acting does for me. It keeps me honest and keeps me sane.

You make documentaries because you love doing it; it's the only sane reason to make documentaries.

I sang 'Your Song' by Elton John, and Silva Screen Records were watching. They got in touch with my agent then had the idea of the Christmas album.

I always sang, I always acted, I always played.

I wish I was more of a song-and-dance girl. I sang in a show once. I wish I could be in 'Hair.'

I disoriented myself from everything about being a human being and just played and played and played and sang and sang and sang.

I've always said that I don't believe in Santa Claus, but I could make a great movie about him if I set my mind to it.