Quotes About Creativity

Predating the Internet and predating videos, you had an active imagination. You would hear sounds and then get mental pictures of what these sounds felt like to you. It engaged you and made you more invested in it. It made you want to get tickets to the show, buy the album, put the poster on the wall. Now it's sensory overload.

Writing is a very strenuous thing - it's like banging your head against a wall. At the end of the day, acting is better, just because nobody ever asked me if I wanted a Pellegrino in the writer's room.

Often, I find it really hard to see what I'm doing when I'm in the thick of things. I can get too precious and have to force myself to put my paintings aside. There's a wall in my studio where I hang paintings that I think are done or nearly done. Over time, I'll realise which ones are working and which aren't.

My mum always liked poetry, and she had pictures on the wall, so there was this visual stuff around.

I'm not going to do the Ben Harper house record or the Ben Harper drum 'n' bass record.

Sometimes not playing music for a day is much more beneficial than playing every day for ten hours.

Now that I have started acting in Bengali films, I will look forward to working with various directors.

You don't go to Berkeley to become an actor. In fact, I don't think you go to any school to become an actor. You've just sort of got to go out there and act.

I create my own lyrics. I have a great band. I have a drummer from East Berlin.

I grew up in East Berlin, in a family of artists.

Bernard Herrmann used to write all his scores by himself. So did Bach, Beethoven and Stravinsky. I don't understand why this happens in the movie industry.

I worshipped Berry Gordy for the creative dreams he had made come true.

Anytime I'm playing music or getting ready to record, Duane Allman will enter my thoughts, and so will Berry Oakley. It's part of my musical makeup and mental process when it comes to music. We learned to play together and taught each other a lot.

I'd really like to see Mary Berry busting out a Pitbull number!

Besides, Weebles are too hard to draw - they just end up looking like eggs, not people.

Sometimes I think it's easier to play someone who's very, very different from yourself. Besides, I wouldn't want to play people who are just like me; that would get awfully boring very fast!

Besides makeup, my other passion is music.

Besides acting, writing has been my passion for a long time.

I wanted to show people that I can do something besides street music.

It's just so fun to share that experience with your best friend when you're finding your voice as an artist.

It's such a fun experience getting to kind of create something from nothing with your best friend.

The best part of fashion is the interns - having them or being one.

There is the great creative part of it. The writing is the best part.

Music says the things that people don't say or are afraid to say, and that's the best part about it for me.