Quotes About Creativity

I do write a lot from personal experience, but I also embellish a bit.

The B-52s, you know, our songs are about volcanoes or lobsters. Cindy and I sing them like our lives depend on them. I feel very emotional when I'm singing 'Rock Lobster,' but I've wanted to sing more about my personal experience.

Telling a story is an emotional and personal experience for me and I can't do without it.

As someone whose music is connected to his personal growth, I feel an obligation to follow this muse wherever it leads.

You are always drawing from your personal life and using your imagination to fill in the blanks.

When you are writing a book, it feels as if you are simply concentrating on the world of the book and that whatever is happening in your personal life is outside the room, as it were. But maybe that's just the way you have to talk to yourself to make it possible.

A lot of my personal life feels very separate from my music.

As an actor, you go in your own personal life and pull from your personal life, so that's what I do.

I don't choose characters with the intention of working something out in my personal life.

I've been writing a lot of songs about my personal life and identity. That can be a real healing process.

My approach to writing is, it's either going to be a personal story about me and what I've personally been through, or it's going to be inspired by a friend.

The fact that I get to write and direct my own personal story is an amazing thing.

I am working on music and telling my personal story and sharing my talent on stage.

My first novel, 'When You Were Mine,' was a very, very personal story and drew a lot on the people in my life and the relationships that I had.

I'm really interested in fashion but at the same time I find it quite competitive. Second-hand stuff leaves you more open to whatever your own personal style is rather than feeling dictated to by shops.

I admire anyone with their own sense of personal style.

It's fun to be an actor and dress up, but I'm happy being me and just loving accepting my personal style.

I am so excited to have created a line that has been inspired by my culture - showing its color, its passion and its greatness - and one that captures much of my personal style.

Rooney Mara is someone I'd like to dress; we've not worked with her before and she certainly has very interesting personal style.

I would describe my personal style as putting Twiggy and Yoko Ono together. It is hobo with no rules.

I do not do selfies! That's a tough one because I don't do selfies, but I think it's all about personal style. The more outrageous, the better.

Particularly for back-to-school, braids are a great way of showcasing your personal style. It doesn't stop at your clothes; it extends to how you wear your hair.

My music is a personal thing, and I feel like if I talk too much about the songs, or if there's too much of my personal life out there, it ruins it.

It's a really personal thing for me to write a song.