Quotes About Creativity

I think the bravest thing to write about is nothing, just to write a book in which nothing happens.

The bravest artists I've ever known have always been graf artists. Risking your life and your freedom is no joke.

I know Brazilian music. I have worked with Brazilians many times.

I don't have anything to prove as a writer anymore. I write about Panera Bread or Red Lobster or Satan or Richard Ramirez or whatever comes to mind. I just write.

I think that the essence of being an artist is to break rules. You have to learn rules, and you have to break them, because if you make art only by the rules, then you make very boring art.

I only take up roles that really appeal to me, and like to break the rules as an actress.

See, there were certain rules I'd always used, and people like Trane, they would break those rules.

Whatever's going on with me at the time of writing is going to find its way into the piece. If that doesn't happen, then what the hell am I doing? So if I'm writing 'Inglourious Basterds,' and I'm in love with a girl and we break up, that's going to find its way into the piece.

An artist could have a really big relationship, and then they break up, and any song after that, people are automatically going to assume that that song is about that person.

If I'm in a state about a book, I'll get up at 6 A.M. and write before breakfast, but usually I'll start afterwards and then work a full day with a break for lunch.

I want to take acting lessons first. But I'd love to find the right film, a 'Breakfast Club' kind of thing.

I wrote 'Show Me the Way' in the morning and wrote 'Baby, I Love Your Way' in the afternoon of the same day. I've been trying to figure out what I ate for breakfast that morning ever since!

I like breaking the rules.

Whenever someone wants to say something to a whole mass of people by breaking into song, there's probably something wrong with them.

It's good to see your songs breaking the barriers of language.

There are so many situations when you feel like your heart is breaking. I keep those emotions pent up, so I can create stories around them and shape what I would say from another perspective.

I feel like my breakout moment had to have been when I dropped 'Drip Season 3.' I feel like it was just a real good body of music.

I want people to get inspired by public space - their space. People tend to forget about it because they do the daily thing, but putting up these sculptures breaks the routine.

Music breaks my heart constantly.

When I'm working on a novel, I generally do write every day, but in between those marathons, I take breaks. My brain needs time to recharge.

I want to see creativity that breaks boundaries and isn't just about money.

When a play breaks down, yeah, I've been blessed with the ability to make plays.

I met a girl, and two months after we met I wrote 'Nevermind.' And 'Never Go Back' is actually a song I wrote two or three days after the breakup, after a year and a half. Straight continuation of the story.

I think any great song is difficult to write, in some aspect. It's just difficult to make somebody feel something. That is the main goal. How do you make somebody want to get up and dance? How do you make somebody feel okay after their breakup?