Quotes About Creativity

There's always ideas buzzing around, but it's whether they actually end up materialising into a song.

Some of the greatest films and television have only been seen by the people that make them. And some of the greatest music is only heard by the people who make it.

You can say something, make something, and be rewarded for it by the people you're speaking to.

By the time I was 12, I had decided to be an artist.

I had written six scores by the time I was 20, and I'd never been paid a dollar.

Most writers, by the time they're 60, must have revisited their childhood a dozen times.

I number my drafts, and by the time a book is done, I'll have 75 or 80 drafts of some sections.

I couldn't play ball. I couldn't dance. Luckily, the girls didn't want me. Not much I could do about that. So I started to draw and to write. By the time I got to where I was attracting girls, I was already into work, and it was more important to me.

I now do my own cabaret act, singing and telling stories about my life.

I would like to record. I would like to do some cabaret acts.

You look at shows on cable, and there's a lot of smart writing out there.

It is easier to make a film but difficult to make it on your own terms. In that sense 'Madras Cafe' was a very satisfying experience.

Photographing a cake can be art.

Writing is only the frosting on my cake. I'm whole without it.

'Cake Boss' does massive, massive things, which are great.

You want to have a good cake? Get two engineers to build it.

I'm always willing to help out when people have stories and they bring them to me. I also like the completely fun films like 'Patti Cake$.' My taste is, if it feels like it's something I'd like to see, then I'll get behind it.

I love making cakes, and I'm good at it.

I think that baking cakes with elaborate icings for an appreciative audience is fun.

It's always nice to have more than just two hands if you're making cakes.

I've baked more cakes since I've been on 'Bake Off' than I have in my life.

I went to Cal Arts. I went to art school.

The beauty about my career is that none of it was really calculated.

I'm calculated in other things, but not in what I make.