Quotes About Creativity

I leave my editor to put the periods and commas in.

Throughout my life, there's just periods when I write and periods when I don't. I don't feel like anything's really blocked. It's just not where things are at right now, and it's just a matter of time until there's something going on where I feel compelled to write.

Since he was 17 years old in Atlanta, I think people always knew that there was something different about Key. He's obviously been able to adapt to so many sounds and time periods in his own way, which is clear from the long list of collaborators; but he has always retained an effortlessly weird perspective.

I draw a lot of inspiration from different time periods.

I really love music that's on the periphery of not fitting into a clear genre. I felt like I was constantly being described as something I didn't really feel like I identified with.

Music is my breath, blood and food - without music I would perish; the actor in me would die.

It can have an enormous effect because big budget movies can have big budget perks, and small budget movies have no perks, but what is the driving force, of course, is the script, and your part in it.

One of the great perks of being a writer is that you can work when you're mentally capable of it, not when someone else thinks you should.

Working with a female director has great perks.

Drawing is like making an expressive gesture with the advantage of permanence.

Hair is the greatest thing to experiment with because it's not permanent. If I didn't like my colour, I'd just change it.

Nothing convinces an artist more of the arbitrariness of the means to which he resorts to attain a goal - however permanent it may be - than the creative process itself, the process of composition.

That's why it's called Sebastian Bach. I mean, it's a permanent band, pretty much, but if I jam with other people, it just makes a better album, I think.

I have my permanent muses and my muses of the moment.

I never see songs as permanent. I'm always in a state of revising everything.

I don't feel insecure at all. There's nothing permanent here. One has to make the most of his/her talent.

I want to be rich enough that, without being cruel, I could buy a horse, a white horse, and permanently attach a horn. A pearlescent horn. And then I could just be like, 'Yeah, I have a unicorn.' But I don't know how you do that without being cruel.

I know that if a film is ready to emerge out of what I write, I'll be able to go off and make it without asking anyone's permission.

The novelist has permission to do whatever she chooses to supercharge whatever's interesting in her story. This is also known as freedom.

The things the writers have me doing on 'Suburgatory' are insane. I think they think it's easier to ask for forgiveness than permission.

It's Frank's painting on the cover. We were originally going to use a Salvador Dali painting that we got permission from Salvador Dali to use, and Frank found this one, and it really did fit the music much more.

I think comics do need permission to fail. I think comics do need permission to go up and try stuff.

I will be making films, and I'm going to keep working, no matter what I have to do. And I don't plan to ever ask for permission from anybody.

Acting is a job of permission. Someone has to give you permission to do it. But I have started to be like, 'I only want to do things that I want to do,' and writing has afforded me the luxury.