Quotes About Creativity

I'm never scared what people are gonna think about music that I make.

I have to live authentically at all times. And that's part of what makes me an artist. I'm not scared to do that.

Acting scares me.

Art scares me. I don't feel cool enough to be an artist.

I don't like scaring people off. When I tell people I'm a writer, they look kind of interested. Then I tell them that I write poetry, and they think I'm weird.

I don't know how to produce work if it's not something that's deeply scaring me or troubling me.

Going out and trying new stuff on an audience is a scary thing.

If there are 100 people, I don't anticipate all 100 liking my scenario - but I write it so at least one or two of them will love and get really into that particular story.

Whenever I write the scenarios for my games, I don't necessarily envision them being liked or being wonderful for everyone.

I wish the rock 'n' roll scene to be back in.

When I'm on set, I don't really think about what an audience is going to think about a scene. I'm just thinking about how I can make it best. And how I can enjoy myself most.

You can't have a beauty scene for beauty's sake.

I was always really into the music rather than the scene.

I write scenes - often quite long scenes - mainly because I still get seduced into writing six lines where one and a half will do.

If my characters travel somewhere, I generally write about a place I know to give the scenes more authenticity.

Some people manage their writing by saying, 'I need to get 2,000 words written today,' others by saying, 'I will write for X hours.' Not me. I start with a plan for the book, break it down into scenes, and I know what scenes need to get written each day. If the scene takes more words than I thought, so be it.

For me, when I start a novel, I only have a general sense of what I am going to do - usually three or four big scenes or something to which I can really respond emotionally.

I really like directors who give you a certain amount of autonomy because I think a lot about my characters and I think a lot about scenes and choices.

I am very interested in behind the scenes, and I am very creative.

I'm not really trying to get in the acting field that hard. I'm trying to really be behind the scenes and direct and produce.

The music, for me, doesn't come on a schedule. I don't know when it's going to come, and when it does, I want it out.

I've found it really hard to finish writing songs when you're writing on not just your schedule but somebody else's.

I am not a person of schedule when it comes to writing.

I've joked that I would have either become schizophrenic or an actress, but as an actress you can do both.