Quotes About Creativity

Ultravox were the blueprint for what I wanted to do, but I stumbled across them by accident.

There's no blueprint for success in rock'n'roll.

I think if you're writing a play, it should be its own end game; you'll never get to do a good one unless you know it's not a blueprint for a film; you're not going to get the action right and the story right.

You don't have to live the blues to play the blues.

I just play blues for fun.

'Tailgate Blues' is kind of a lyrical masterpiece of a country song.

But my big thing was always the blues.

I have a lot of friends who are involved in everything from Americana to blues to R&B to pop to country.

I've always loved soul, R&B, doo-wop and blues, and I've wanted to make a record like that for years.

I would sing the blues if I had the blues.

Of all the songs we played, 'Statesboro Blues' was the most ripped-off.

I wouldn't call myself a jazz player or a blues player.

Who's to say a blues man can't play rock and roll?

I love jazz and blues, where there's a structure, but a lot of the cool stuff is veering off the page and playing.

Listen to really old blues guys and how they weren't allowed to sing about what they meant; they alluded to things. I find that style amusing, and I think it's a little harder to write.

Black people have always loved the blues - they basically created the blues.

I was just fascinated by the blues.

I didn't play or like a lot of board games as a child. I liked playing with my G.I. Joes and making up adventures for them.

Of course you bank on your experience, but as a sounding board. It isn't that you write down what happens to you every day. You wouldn't be a writer if you did that.

I feel, for the most part, especially in comedy, you make your own work, and maybe that's true across the board.

Make a list of activities that keep you tethered to your creative world, and put it where you can see it every day - like, right in the center of your image board.

Boarding for me, like in the days of 'Dexter,' was really hard, because I couldn't draw as well, and I had people around me who drew really well, so it was hard.

I want Pinterest to be human. The Internet's still so abstract... To me, boards are a very human way of looking at the world.

I remember that, at an early age, I spent many months making a three-masted sailing boat with rigging in a half-walnut shell.