Quotes About Creativity

I have to think as Bugs Bunny, not of Bugs Bunny.

It is my greatest wish to teach children what I now believe: that writing is not a burden but a joy.

We are grateful, as artists, as individuals, that people have such big expectations of us, and we are ready to take on the burden that comes with the expectations.

If you play without the shackles and burdens, then you play like you did when you were a kid.

Stand-up is no bureaucracy. No one can tell me what to do or not to do.

I love to get on stage and burn it up.

Doing 'Hedwig' was so hard that I kind of burned out on acting.

Music should be fun. If it's not fun, then you're going to get burned out; you're not going to give the best show.

I didn't have a burning desire to be a writer or director - writer probably more so, certainly not a director.

I think we really almost burnt ourselves out on one record.

People think I can burst into song any time of the day, it's crazy.

All I ever wanted to do was write songs and get on a bus and go play them for people.

It was a lot of fun in the back of that bus with Ritchie Valens, Buddy and The Big Bopper sharing each other's songs.

I never learned management. I never went to business school. I'm an artist. I happened to have really clear ideas of what I thought my business should be.

I am not a businessman, I am an artist.

I grew up the son of a businessman. And I didn't get into music to be a businessman.

I'm from a family of bankers and businessmen, and here I am, the artist, the black sheep.

What artists think about the world is often different from how we businessmen see it, and I find that an enriching experience.

I'm an artist, but I'm also a businesswoman, and sometimes you have to play hard.

I'm not an artist: I'm a businesswoman. Well, maybe an artist/businesswoman.

'Rock Or Bust' is a thing we've always done.

I think everybody should have the right to do drag if they want to. Even if they look busted!

I play guitar and sing when I'm not busy with school and acting.

You have to insulate yourself - I'm talking about from everything, people can be talking to you and you won't hear 'em - that's how you write a song. And I haven't been able to do that over here 'cause I'm so busy and then, when I am off, I want to get away from music.