Quotes About Creativity

Most of my characters are an amalgamation of people that I've met, my family, or myself. Being a writer, you can draw only from what you know. I am lucky to have really rich and interesting people in my family for, you know, interesting family nights and great characters.

56 Nights' one of the best mixtapes ever.

When I did '3 Nights,' it was just one of those days where we'd gotten enough sleep, enough food, and we were excited.

Flair and I would work with one another sometimes seven nights a week, and with four weeks in a month, we had to keep changing up the matches with fans following the circuit every night. It would always test me and Ric to do something different.

When the energy is really high, I feed off it. Those are the nights where I really take a left turn and we just go.

Well, every nights gonna be different. I dont even know what were going to play the next two nights. But thats the exciting part of it.

I think there is an element of nihilism about, but I don't think most artists feel their work is meaningless.

I want to be like the Nike or Apple of children's books.

Britain has the most creative, dynamic and nimble fashion industry in the world.

On 'Mr. Robot,' because I run the writers' room and know every decision behind every line of dialogue, I'm able to be nimble and adapt with the scripts and the moments. I never have to question what I'm doing as I'm directing the actors or going through the scenes.

I would rather put out two year-defining songs a year than flood the market with eight or nine songs.

You know, I've been playing with my hair color ever since I was nine.

All Montreal bands have around nine members, I believe.

Nine out of 10 times these guys will hit it-they'll be on something incredibly funny, but one out of 10, two out of 10, they'll fall flat on their faces. That's what makes them great actors: they take those chances, they don't play it safe.

Usually it takes me about nine to 12 months to write a book.

I used to think that: whenever I heard that someone had taken 10 years to write a novel, I'd think it must be a big, serious book. Now I think, 'No - it took you one year to write, and nine years to sit around eating Kit Kats.'

I ended up doing a local AmDram musical when I was nine or so. We had to sing and dance and act. It was probably terrible, but I loved it.

I'm so hard on myself that when I'm in the studio, I'll write 10 songs and only use one. So those nine songs that are left over, I always think, 'Where could these go? Who could they be for?'

I cannot see myself sitting at a desk from nine to five!

I loved Fugazi, the D.C. hardcore band, because they always did everything themselves. They had their own label, and the CDs always cost nine dollars, the T-shirts always cost eight dollars, the shows always cost five dollars, no major label.

Ideas come mostly bottoms-up. They come when you have a free flow of ideas and you have people able to combine multiple ideas into one concept... And you've got to have competition, too. You've got to say, 'We're going to have 10 different ideas, nine of them are going to fail, and the one that does the best is going to move forward.'

I made lots of short films, about nine or ten short films. And then I made a television film called 'This Little Life.'

My mom never went to college, so she just assumed the writer identity, and that was always really inspiring to me. It's not something you need nine levels of education for. It's really an identity that you claim for yourself, and then you have to make yourself one.

Songs being nine to 10 minutes long? Everyone is scared to to do it.