Quotes About Creativity

If you are a writer, Saturday and Sunday don't mean anything.

The inspiration for 'Ai Dil Mere' happened at 4:30 A.M. on a Sunday.

Sunday afternoon is for papers and writing.

I remember writing Sunday Morning' and Gwen wasn't feeling well that day and I had an acoustic guitar and I started singing, Somebody is feeling quite ill ' and that became Sunday Morning.'

I studied all about Gauguin. He was a banker. He was a banker who - he used to paint on Sundays. And one day he hated himself for painting on Sundays.

Sunday is the one day I keep reminding myself that I should lay around and take it easy, but because I am O.C.D. and an extreme multitasker, I find it hard to get lazy. I love Sundays for painting because it's quieter; the gallery is closed, and there are no interruptions.

I work in the studio all day, and then I go for a walk with my dog, listening to music on headphones. And Saturday and Sundays, work is strictly out of bounds. It has to be.

I remember my first role as a sunflower at nine.

As soon as I could write with a little pencil, I was writing these little hymns and illustrating them, and I thought they should be sung in church, but they never were.

As a musician, I have sung, composed, and played instruments, and a lesser-known fact is that I have composed 20-30 ad jingles as well.

Yeah, I think the arts and literature have always been irrevocably connected. Because if you think about it, every film script, every play, every song starts as words on the page before it is ever performed or filmed or sung.

People don't realize the limitations of 200 words, and the way they get chiselled down into a song that has to be sung.

When I listen to my own records, I always think, 'Oh, I could have sung that so much better.' But you have to finish something and turn it in. If I didn't have folks who say, 'Come on, we need the record now,' I probably would never finish one.

I've sung in the shower for years.

New York is the place where they bind books and write blurbs and arrange the publicity and print the galleys... But Chicago is the place where the book is lived out before it is bound and the song is sung before it is recorded.

My rebellion has always been positive and connected with my work. That's how I've sung in foreign languages and collaborated with international artistes.

I have sung all kinds of songs - be it ghazals, qawwalis, romantic numbers or peppy numbers.

After Silk Route disbanded I came on my own, and through the years, I have sung a few film songs while writing songs for my album.

I've had a wordless phase, and that's still not entirely over: what I sing is not always literally meant that way, and you can hear that in the way it is sung.

Song Sung Blue took a lot of compressing and refining, and it has one of my favorite lyrics.

Every song asks to be sung in a different way.

I started out singing covers. I've sung a lot of 'em and love a lot of 'em.

I feel like there's no subject that can't be sung about. I wrote a song dedicated to people with inflammatory bowel disease, and then I wrote about shoes. And mangoes. Every rock should be turned.

I think I write very good songs. But I don't know if anybody could record my songs with as much fervor. They sound good sung by me, and they especially sound good with my band.