Quotes About Creativity

I think any period in history can be adapted into interesting fiction, as long as you approach the actual history with respect.

Someone like John would want to end the Beatle period and start the Yoko period. He wouldn't like either to interfere with the other.

You can do things with TV that you just can't do on film. There's so much more time: there's the opportunity for development, and you can let things lay dormant for a period. You can't really do that in two hours or three hours in a movie that often, I would say.

It can get a little costly if you try and leave it until then to write songs. But you're writing all the time. You're collecting songs. I've had songs that have been collected over a two-year period for my next record.

But with period clothes, people know less so they accept the pretty drawing that I give them.

I'll have periods when I write and periods when I don't. But you don't want it to become a discipline, really. If it becomes a discipline, it becomes a chore, and that's no good. To make art you need to be inspired.

I go through periods of not writing. Until there's something I can't find in the world that I need, so I write.

I go through periods, usually when I'm editing and shooting, of seeing only old films.

When we started with 'Big Brother' and created the reality genre, no one could ever foresee that there was so much space in the genre that it could deliver so many formats. There will be periods where there is not enough new stuff to keep the genre alive. But it will never die.

I go through long periods of time when I don't write, and I'm fine.

Most people who are writers go through periods when they can't write.

I'm inspired by history, different periods.

I think music is my favorite thing to do, but I go through periods where I think differently.

We all have fertile creative periods and times when we can't figure out how we ever did it.

I think people like to see the lives of artists that are legends. They always go through the dark periods and I think just as humans we like to see that and them coming out of it. I love those kinds of movies.

Sometimes in writing you have difficult periods and then other times it just flows.

More than periods where I don't write anything, I have periods where I just write junk and I know I'm writing junk but I can't stop.

I think there have been some periods when the writing almost became a bit of a burden.

I used to dye my hair different colors and have crazy periods, especially early in my career when I played in Italy.

I find I often just fall into a stone-like sleep, right in the middle of the day, just sort of clonk. I can't work for extended periods when I'm beginning something. But if I'm at the end of something, I can work on for hours and hours and hours.

I've gone periods of maybe four months without writing anything, but it's not a problem. It just means something's building inside you, and it'll build and it'll build, and at some point it'll come out, and it does, and it usually comes out in three or four songs, and you play it that way, really.

I often feel like not writing! Sometimes I overcome it by just sitting there until writing happens. Sometimes I don't write, because books often need periods of percolation.

I wanted to make an album that takes a journey through all my favorite periods in music and then culminates in something that will most likely end my career.

I go through periods where I don't really care what I look like, because I feel more focused on the work that I'm doing, and I don't want to think about it. And then sometimes it feels like the biggest part of my day is getting dressed.