Quotes About Creativity

I went to a quite macho art school in the 1970s, and while everyone was making hulking big sculptures, I was making things out of bits of paper.

I can't tell you how many bizarre shows at UCB I was a part of.

Art, like science, progresses, and to me it's bizarre that a lot of acclaimed and popular and respectable books are not advancing the art form.

The opportunity to be bizarre - I am bizarre, aren't I? - is just so wonderful, isn't it?

I used to have these reoccurring dreams that I played guitar, which I thought was so bizarre. It all sort of fit together at some point, and I said 'I want to play guitar.'

Besides black art, there is only automation and mechanization.

I want to do a black comedy with Homi Adajania and also want to work with Vishal Bhardwaj, Imtiaz Ali and Anurag Kashyap.

That's because we did not set out to make black music. We set out to make quality music that everyone could enjoy and listen to.

Without the jazz influence, the Black Sabbath drumming would be very different.

You can't play a backbeat in Black Sabbath. You can if you want to; it's going to ruin the song.

I'm playing jazz throughout the song 'Black Sabbath.' That's what it is there. I mean, I'm moving some other things around, but that is forever in there.

The first 'Blackout!' just started out with us doing the first song, 'How High' - I guess it was 'How High' - and then it just took off from there.

I've been dreaming to do sci-fi since I was 10 years old, and I said 'no' to a lot of sequels - I couldn't say 'no' to 'Blade Runner.'

I love 'Alien' and 'Blade Runner' and '2001.'

I am not a farceur. I am not Blake Edwards.

I thought it would be nice to sit in with Timothy B. Schmit and sing 'Take It to the Limit,' but they pretty much gave me a 'no' in a roundabout way. I can't blame them. They have to keep their band the way it is.

I can blame a lot of things for not writing songs, but cancer isn't one of them.

As long as you do the best work that you can and not make it bland... because you're going down a lane that is trying to make everybody happy. You have to take an angle on these things.

I've been building scratch cars my whole life - my passion is taking something that doesn't exist, creating a concept on a blank piece of paper and making that concept real.

I crocheted a blanket larger than a king-size bed. I just kept going.

Sometimes I draw blanks.

Seeing people cosplaying my characters is always a blast.

The Dead Daisies have been an absolute blast for me so far. The guys are all great musicians and also incredibly easy to work with.

The truth is, I do some of my best writing at 3 A.M. while blasting 'Every Time I Die' into my ear drums.