Quotes About Creativity

Even if nobody was listening to it, I'd still be making music.

I created my lane. No one can ever run my lane because it's mine. I'm the Michael Jackson of my lane. And you know, nobody was as great as Michael. I love Prince, but he's not Michael.

When you have a brilliant idea, nobody is going to ask to see your diploma.

You have to do something different, or you are just the guy who goes out there and has a great match, but nobody cares. You have to have different layers to your character.

There are millions of people around the world that want to be artists and want to make stuff to entertain people, but nobody cares.

I've written songs about things that nobody else has ever written about.

Music is so important. Because in Chicago it's up to us to tell the stories nobody else will.

I thought that I wrote songs and wrote music, and that was sort of what I thought I was best at doing. And because nobody else was ever doing my songs, I felt - you know, I had to go out and do them.

The businessman says 'If I don't do it first, somebody else will.' The artist says 'If I don't do it first, nobody else will.'

I guess I think about doing stuff that nobody else has done.

That's where I got lucky; nobody else is doing what I do or really can do what I do.

With acting, you can find a way to make it interesting for yourself, if nobody else - even on big-budget films. But you're very much on your own.

Hip hop is a multi-billion dollar business, and it was built off an opportunity that nobody else saw because they didn't understand the culture.

I auditioned for Lamorne Morris' part, Winston, on 'New Girl.' In the scene, the character was eating a mayonnaise sandwich. I thought, 'Nobody else is going to go into the audition eating, and this is how I'm gonna set myself apart.'

You custom make your own car, ain't nobody else driving that.

When I mention that I'm a game designer as well as a writer, someone will nod and say, 'Ah, that's what we like about your script. The videogame feel.'

I wanted to work with Sriram Raghavan, the master of noir.

As brilliant as those dark Scandi noir dramas are, not everything has to be shot down a Danish alleyway.

I frequently hear music in the very heart of noise.

The majority of the people think that noise is not music. I want to accept noise and even errors and glitches. I enjoy them.

My concept when making music is that there is no border between music and noise.

One of your jobs as a writer is to cut out the noise. All you have is your instincts and your process.

To me, the best music always comes when - it sounds cliche, but you just try to block out the noise and try to not have any pressure with it and take your time.

I really like incorporating noise music into pop.