Quotes About Creativity

I want to write theater pieces, opera, or some kind of amalgamation where there is singing, music and theater.

I kind of have to take pieces of myself to fit what it is that radio wants.

I've written songs on everything. Menus. Napkins. Little pieces of paper.

All I would say is that when I've been very down or having kind of a tough time in my life, certain films or pieces of music or books have changed that. They've taken me out of a dark place and put me into a more positive one. And I think that if we can do that for people, then it's certainly worth doing.

Whenever anything bubbles up, I have to put it down. I have bits and pieces all over my hard drive.

My favorite pieces that I've written, either for St. Lucia or for myself, have always had a transporting quality to them, where they take you out of the moment and somewhere positive that feels nostalgic and happy but sad at the same time.

Don't be afraid to wear fancy dress-up pieces with your everyday denim jeans/shorts.

For me, it's always been about a mix of hip-hop, acoustic singer/songwriters, and piano rock. I pull all those together. Each song may lean more heavily on one than the other, but they all have all three pieces.

I think we're very much in a mystery here in this life and that artists try to pierce the mystery with their art.

Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.

When people are taking something extremely seriously, that's the time to take out the pig's bladder.

The first things I made were absolute pig's ears. I didn't understand about facings, or finishings, or anything.

I'm a very boring person, and all I do is want to paint and to record what I feel moves me or what interests me, and that can be in the form of a pig or in the form of President Kennedy.

I am real, real picky with what I decided to do. I want to make sure it's new and at the same time that it's in the same color of what I have played before. Not to pigeon hole myself but I don't like to do fluff.

I would never pigeon hole myself stylistically because I just don't know what I am going to want to do next.

That's the beauty of Black Eyed Peas, we don't pigeonhole ourselves into just one category. We're the chameleons of hip-hop.

It was different to what everyone else was doing. It was very hard to pigeonhole The Cranberries. And we were just huge; it was just sensational.

I don't want to get pigeonholed.

It gives me more breadth as an actor and as an artist to not be pigeonholed.

The cool thing about being different in this industry is that you get different roles; you aren't pigeonholed the same way.

I have complete freedom, and there's no way to get pigeonholed or bored. What could be better than that?

I don't like being pigeonholed at all. It stemmed from after 'Mandy Lane': I was being offered all these horror movies. I love horror movies, but when I dreamed of being a director, it was always doing all sorts of things.

My artistic manifesto exists in the world as poetry. So even though most of the things that I've done have been on other people's projects or could be pigeonholed in certain ways, that's not how I perceive myself.

R&B needs to see a new light. It doesn't have to be pigeonholed.