Quotes About Creativity

Paul persuaded me to join the band. I would never have had the courage otherwise. It was fun at the beginning. We were playing just for fun, with Paul's group.

It is a lot harder to write a good book or a good column in a persuasive way without making fun of someone or ridiculing them.

Outside of interviews, I spend very little time thinking about myself. I spend time thinking about my writing and my children and other things that are pertinent.

That's the thing about fiction writers: what seems alarming or particular or perverse about them is simply the shape of their brain - they cannot be otherwise.

I'm a happy person! I guess I'm not as much of a pessimist as most documentary filmmakers.

If the general opinion is pessimistic, fantasy is going to hold its own.

Perhaps it is because cats do not live by human patterns, do not fit themselves into prescribed behavior, that they are so united to creative people.

I always pet a dog with my left hand because if he bit me I'd still have my right hand to paint with.

One of our biggest pet peeves is listening to bands that use harmony guitars for the sake of it. If you can't figure out how do something different than Maiden, UFO, or even Boston, then what's the point?

That's one of my pet peeves. People always want to put something into a category - this one or that one. You know, a great song is a great song.

All writers have their own pet commandments.

I've wanted to do a Sammy Davis Jr. story for a long time. It's one of those pet projects that has to be done.

My best time to write is right after coffee and breakfast - four eggs - because, full disclosure, I'm really a komodo dragon - and that's because then I'm energized but not so awake that the critical voice clicks on, the voice that sometimes says, 'Don't write that,' or, 'Man, that sentence is terrible - you should give up and go pet the cats.'

I've never written a 'Revolver' or a 'Pet Sounds.'

It never would have occurred to me in 'Days of Future Past' to cast Peter Dinklage as Bolivar Trask, and yet as soon as he got onscreen I couldn't think of anyone else.

My basic influence had probably been Peter Max.

In Genesis we saw ourselves as song-writers. After Peter Gabriel left I was the first to say: 'It's OK - we can just do instrumentals.'

I still find it quite easy to find my way into a child's imagination. We're all Peter Pan ourselves in some respects. Everybody should keep some grip on childhood, even as a grownup.

Somebody once asked me how I found Peter Jackson, and I said: 'Well, I parted his hair, and there he was.'

For Halloween, I've gone trick-or-treating as Mary Poppins, Peter Pan, and Robin Hood.

In fact, I had the idea because of Peter Falk. I saw my dad watching a Peter Falk movie and something clicked in my head. I gotta go make a movie for Peter Falk and me.

When you get to work with people like Ian McKellen or directors like Peter Jackson, you sit and watch.

The thing with 'Peter Pan' is it's been done so well so many times.

Peter Som is one of my favorite designers. I love his clothes so much.