Quotes About Creativity

You have to be careful what you say in front of comedy writers because they will absolutely make fun of it in the next episode.

I don't want the government to be censoring people, I don't think there should be censoring boards, but I think that means that we the artists need to be very careful about what we're putting out and what were saying and how we're saying it. And I don't think we're being as careful as we should be.

I tell you, those old dudes who say, 'I don't care about fashion,' they're not going out in drag. Everyone cares about fashion.

I'm good at caricature.

I like all kinds of music. But I would rather people stop caring about lines.

It was ages ago now, but when we started Bastille, I didn't necessarily want people to know or care if it was a band, and it came from a place, really, of just much rather having people listen to the songs rather than caring about the people making it.

I spent a lot of time in my head, but not like caring about what everybody else thought, just literally in my own world.

As a kid, I was always inspired by the comedy of Carol Burnett. I loved Dick Clair and Jenna McMahon's 'Mama's Family'.

We are such big John Carpenter fans.

On any given day, if I play the guitar, I can put myself somewhere. I always thought, 'This is the way you go.' It's like a magic carpet, see?

Writing in certain environments carries with it an occupational risk.

We should be growing carrots up the side of the Empire State Building or Big Ben.

I always carry my camera with me.

If I have an idea, I write it down, although I usually carry a little dictation machine with me because I'm too lazy to write.

Playing music is a lifetime's work. And if you want to carry on with it, you have to try to better yourself. You have to see where the music can take you.

Art was carrying me a lot of the time. When you're accustomed to playing with Art, and you play with other drummers, it's as if the bottom dropped out.

It's easier to go from theatre to film than the other way round. In film you're absolutely loved and cossetted and cared for. In film your director makes your performance. In theatre you're carrying it all.

I think, as a writer, sometimes you do worry, 'Am I just writing, or am I putting the burden of African-Americans on my shoulder and carrying it?' But if we just write the stories that we're supposed to write, that's when we have the biggest impact.

I don't write with this thing in the back of my head about carrying the weight of young black women on my shoulders.

I admire Elliott Carter endlessly. But I have no ambitions to emulate him.

It makes a lot of sense to me that I would be a cartoon. I feel like a cartoon as a person. I really, really do.

I loved 'Dungeons & Dragons'. That was actually a good cartoon to me.

I can do a really high-pitched cartoon voice. Everybody always say they like that.

Beanie and Cecil was the first cartoon I remember watching and I think there are analogies.