Quotes About Creativity

I don't make demos. I don't have the interest or the energy or the time. Demos are something you do in the early stages of your career, but when you get going, you just go in and record the song.

The image, like the voice, came in stages. I never sat down with anyone and said, 'Let's design an image.'

In the past, I was free to write in quiet and in the space wherever my desk was at. I could leave my instruments out. In the past, my writing was super private; I never liked showing my work at its earliest stages.

Theatres, stages are dangerous places.

The musicals that leave us kind of staggering on our feet are the ones that really reach for a lot.

I'd really been interested in opera when I was about 16, and I really like staging them.

Lady Gaga is not saying anything new, she's just quoting something that's already been said, and staging it. It rarely seems sincere. That's why I always try to say something authentic.

Staging any play is very exposing because, if you are going to do it well, you have to put so much of yourself into it.

For me personally, I have a fear of, 'If I stop, I'm going to die.' If I stop doing the things that are enriching to me or creatively exciting to me or if I stop creating, then I feel stagnant. If something isn't growing, it's dying.

It's funny because as a composer, you want to hear your songs live on. I think a lot of times people will create a song and it becomes stagnant or something that they're no longer interested in playing, and they leave it alone.

I feel like animation's stagnant. There's not much that's trying to push the artform, and so, for me, I'm way too critical about it.

I love 'Dogman' by King's X and Living Colour's 'Stain.'

I may have my personal political thing, but we never wanted it to stain the show.

Aesthetes have it all over intellectuals in one very important respect: You'll rarely catch us hustling anyone off to the nearest guillotine. We're too busy trying to make the world more beautiful. Our hands are stained with ink and paint, not blood.

My dad's an artist, and my grandfather paints - he's not a painter; my grandfather's a butcher - but he does a lot of crafts, stained glass, painting, that stuff. There is art in our family, and I was an art major in college along with being a theater major.

I have piles of poetry books in the bathroom, on the stairs, everywhere. The only way to write poetry is to read it.

It's not an easy place to be - to write a horror film. You go down the stairs to the dark to find these characters. It's not a place anyone can go, and sometimes it's not a place that you want to go.

For 'Narrow Stairs', the majority of the songs I brought in were guitar songs - songs we could sit in a room and just play. I can honestly say I had more fun and felt more inspired on this record than anything that we had done in a long time.

The first book I ever bought for myself was 'One Fish Two Fish' by Dr. Seuss. My favourite page shows two children carrying an enormous glass jar up some stairs in the dark. In the jar is a tusked beflippered creature floating in brine.

I never thought 'Stairway to Heaven' was a long song. I loved how there was this part and then there was another part that was completely different.

You want to stake your own claim. You don't want to be called a copycat.

I have always been very into pagan hairstyles. If I were alive a long time ago, I would probably have been burned at the stake.

Jazz is an interesting music. It's one of the few forms of music where everyone that's performing the music has a creative stake in the music. In jazz, everyone's improvising, and everyone's creating at the same time.

I don't want to make a 100 hundred million dollar movie I have no stake in.