Quotes About Creativity

I think I'm needed - as an artist, as an individual, as an entity, an enigma, an exhibitionist, an entertainer - as an alternative.

If I needed to record, I'd head to the coast or Nashville, one or the other.

I'm in a very good place to make records. Needing to make money off music is very dangerous.

If I wasn't plagued by needing to write things, that would perhaps be a blessing.

There's nothing like necessity of needing to do something to cause you to come up with abstractions that help you break through the forms.

Once, even the simple metal needle challenged the conventional thinking of a time.

If I do five, six records that sound great, I want it to come out as fast as it can. I don't care how many copies it sells. It's about musically moving the needle.

Needless to say, I like to create a unique sound for each project I do.

Needless to say, when I work on a film, it's mostly just me alone in my room just waiting to present the music to the director - and either he likes it or not.

An artist is always alone - if he is an artist. No, what the artist needs is loneliness.

Everyone needs a fantasy.

Maybe the mainstream needs someone like me.

I feel like everything needs to be stylised; that's always been my mindset.

Music needs room to breathe.

I have a lot of aggression in me that needs to come out in a not-very-precise or articulate way.

One way to make a positive out of a negative is that you can put it into your work.

I've been arrested several times. I've been known to dress in ludicrous fashions. I've also built a career out of negative reviews.

Without sounding negative, I'm not a huge fan of a lot of stand-up. I'm more interested in an absurd kind of theater.

After my debut didn't go very well with Holt, I needed to be in a healthier head space. I was happy to emerge from there. You will always have those negative thoughts as a writer, but you can't let them take over. If you let them take over, those are the real page killers.

There's something magical still about it when I get in a darkroom, and you've shot a roll of film and you develop it and you look at your negatives, and there's, like, imagery there. That always stuns me.

I just had the joy of taking pictures, and I never cared about my negatives. I just gave them away whenever anybody asked for them.

Negativity is the enemy of creativity.

As much as I love make-up and the creativity behind this, the Internet can be a horrible place, and sometimes, with so much negativity and hate, it's hard.

I knew I wanted to be a writer and I knew if I had a wife and family, I would neglect something, and I was afraid it wouldn't be the writing.