Quotes About Creativity

I'm not calculating enough in the way I approach writing.

The minute you start calculating and trying to figure out what a huge audience is going to think, you're going to fail.

There are no calculations in the records I make. I record as many songs as I can. Songs that I think are my best.

California is always in my mind.

I think California has the best energy.

I'm really into California art from the '60s. I like a lot of Bay Area artists, like Nathan Oliveira and Bruce Conner.

California was special. It's a place where I learned how to be adventurous, both in style and fashion, but also in terms of the way I think.

'Somebody's Calling Me' was written in my sleep, and the original was just the piano and the beat and the singing.

Any artist always has misgivings about calling himself an artist.

It was a romantic dream to be a writer. It seemed like a calling.

I always start a play by calling the characters A, B, and C.

I've never done a sequel - so far, there have been too many new stories and characters calling my name.

Buffalo Springfield had three guitar players, and we thought they were so cool. So we started doing the three-guitar thing, and people started calling us the 'guitar army' and all this stuff.

I spent one year being very poor at home with my piano, and nobody was calling me, but I had space to think about things on my own and find out exactly what I wanted to do.

I always wanted to be a children's author, and I have a really big library of children's books. All the ones from when I was little, they are just so beautiful. I read kids' books, and they calm me down.

Writing is a very calming thing for me.

I came through the bebop era, and to me that was enough.

When my first album came out, it wasn't Bollywood.

I think I'm better behind the camera than I am in front.

I would definitely stay in the business, be behind the camera maybe.

Any nude is a something you setup in front of the camera.

You get to the middle of a take that's going really well and the camera will run out of film. They have to stop you, apologize and then you've got to get things going all over again.

There's something inimical about the camera and song.

I know every actor says this, but the people behind the camera are great. They always have answers.