Quotes About Creativity

Lke so many depressive, creative, extremely lazy high-school students, I was saved by English class.

I just fell in love with the music, man. The music just took control. It really saved my life.

Music gives me a focused purpose. It saves my life every day.

I wasn't very academic at school, but the Wolsey Youth Theatre was the saving of me.

When I started making music, I wanted to enjoy it and make others enjoy it. But it's just music. I am not saving the world.

Pete Dj Jones was the first person that I saw with 2 turntables. This was 1972.

I was a born rock n' roll sax player.

I had an idea when I was 18 or 19 to start tutoring people, like the way that people get tutored in saxophone or guitar, but for production. I really enjoyed it, but I don't have time for that any more.

I don't know why, but I like the saxophone.

I played saxophone for a while when I was a kid.

I loved playing the saxophone.

You've got to find some way of saying it without saying it.

The moment comes when a character does or says something you hadn't thought about. At that moment he's alive and you leave it to him.

If you're playing a character who says whatever he wants, I felt free to say whatever I wanted on set.

This is what I think is fun about fiction - you get to use as much history as you want as scaffolding and then go beyond it and change it and mutate it.

With 'AGT' I was allowed more freedom to be myself. It was also quite a different scale.

I loved doing 'Rock of Ages' in N.Y. and that, but its such a large scale, and so many things go into it.

No matter what, I still was gonna make music, even if it was on a small scale. Even if it was just for me.

To make the films I want, I just have to live within my means and scale down my lifestyle - and be with somebody who's cool with that.

I do not see scales as abstract.

I didn't take lessons, and I don't know my scales.

Playing pentatonic scales over orchestral music is not something I want to do or listen to.

I cannot say that I know a lot about scales, but I can write songs.

I've made myself laugh from some ideas - but I've never scared myself.