Quotes About Creativity

A lot of people didn't like the 'Fantastic Four' for the first year and a half. It took a certain measure of time for me to find my feet in terms of what I wanted to do with the concept.

We wanted to make a living, but success was creating a song that we enjoyed playing. Quite honestly, that is still a measure of success for us.

I'm far more interested in putting a little more meat into the lyrics than some people are.

I just write mechanical things.

You can create some soul out of something that's electronic or mechanical.

Children will come out and listen to a writer whose books they like. They don't need a government agency or a medal that says 'laureate' to continue that.

I listen to a lot of medieval music.

When you play all that as a body of work there are four great songs, four mediocre songs and four bad songs. I didn't know it at the time; I was just doing my best.

It's become uncool to play other people's songs, and that's absurd. It has got to change. It's the reason why everything's so mediocre.

Some people meditate, I like doing my makeup. It very much relaxes me.

Meditation has been a loyal friend to me. It has helped me write my books.

Playing music and singing are my forms of meditation.

I have always been so interested in film as a medium.

To me, music is music, and it's not limited by the medium; it just encompasses everything.

Basically, I love to act. The medium is not important.

I have been no more than a medium, as it were.

If you have something to say, a movie is a really great medium to say it. It doesn't matter what the message is.

I love the medium of film.

Film, I think, is my medium.

When you're doing something where you really like the material, it doesn't matter what medium it's in.

I think at any point, as an artist, whatever the medium - just having an audience means the world.

TV is a writer's medium.

If I had not been successful as a director, then I'm sure I would still be telling stories. I would have continued on 16mm or found a different medium through which to tell them.

I love TV in a way that I don't love any other medium.