Quotes About Creativity

Neither of my parents has been very sensitive about my writing.

A film has to be for commercial success as well as earn you respect as an artist. You don't want to do only things that are designed to run commercially, and neither do you want to do things that get acclaim but don't run.

Art knows neither doctrine nor idea; its nature is to show.

I'm real sexy and I make sexy music so I'm going to be Prince meets Nelson Mandela.

Me and Stormzy. We're gonna do an album. We're gonna do an album of Nelson Riddle arrangements in grime form. It's gonna be called 'Griddle'.

When my nephew was 3 and 4, he would say the most genius things. He said, You're hammer macho with FBI dogs. I thought it was just one of those great lines.

I even have nephews who make music, my daughter makes music. I don't know what advice to give them these days. It's really a tough industry to break into.

Even though I wanted to be John Malkovich or Sean Penn when I was a kid, mostly I was a music nerd.

Being a nerd is not always a bad thing. It's actually cool to be a nerd.

I was at the lunch table freestyling, class freestyling and I was a smart, popular nerd 'cause I didn't play in school.

In fact, the world needs more nerds.

Writers are nerds.

We were the choir nerds.

Stay in school and band, kids! It had its nerdy moments, and I always felt like I wanted to do something more with it.

When I first started drawing the earliest incarnation of 'Optic Nerve,' I hadn't even been on a date; I hadn't had a romantic relationship of any kind yet, so in a way, I was almost writing science fiction.

You need a certain amount of nerve to be a writer.

I miss improv. I hate it in a way - watching it, doing it - but only because it's so challenging and nerve wracking. Improv is the only belief system I've ever experienced that directly works on how to be. Just how to be.

All my friends in art school used to run around with this sort of what you call Beatles haircut. And my boyfriend then, Klaus Voormann, had this hairstyle, and Stuart liked it very, very much. He was the first one who really got the nerve to get the Brylcreem out of his hair and asking me to cut his hair for him.

Writing is pretty crummy on the nerves.

I like to work smart and make music that people want to hear - just finding ways to not get on people's nerves when I'm coming through their ears.

If I play somebody's mixtape, if it gets on my nerves halfway through because it's too loud or everything sounds the same, it makes me want to approach every song I do differently. I don't want somebody saying, 'That's enough of this,' when they listen to my music.

I've taken up sculpting. I thought it might help the nerves in my hands.

Dre says it gets on his nerves when I try to rap. He'd rather have me sing.

Everything makes me nervous - except making films.