Quotes About Creativity

Ultimately, I'd like to create a body of work where every album has its own personality and a reason to exist within the catalog, not just 'more of the same.'

The band couldn't have happened anywhere else in the world but New York. That was the catalyst.

I love the idea of a website/blog being a catalyst for propelling people out into the world, and I enjoy it most when people write me to say that their world looked or smelled or felt a little different because of something that I wrote.

A lot of times, I don't feel responsible for the songs myself. But that's my job or my place in life: to keep my search and catch the ideas before they pass me by.

I am like a TV antenna. I catch everything that is in the air, and then I do it my way.

Typically, my advice to young artists is not to wait for someone to allow you to do the thing. Just do the thing, and they'll catch up.

You have to write and develop and wait for the world to catch up to your art.

I've always tried to come up with something that would catch your ear.

You can't just keep bottling the same thing over and over again and think the audience isn't going to catch on.

While I was making 'Coraline' I barely got to see any films at all, so I've got a lot of catching up to do.

It doesn't take long to make catchy songs. That's not my problem.

My goal is to write catchy songs that make people feel something.

The idea is to be unrestrained by categories.

Part of the reason Loewe has diversified into so many other categories is because what we can't do any more is simply say, 'Here's more stuff you can buy.'

There are so many categories you can pick whatever you like to show who's best.

I try to do the story the way I feel the story should be done, and how that folds into whatever larger sorts of categories or questions is really none of my business.

Our vision is to break the projects into stories that must be told, stories that we would like to tell and stories that people go to movies for. If we can find great scripts that fit these three categories, we will go out and make a movie.

It's like everyone wants to categorize you as this and that until you've made your own mark.

I don't think you should categorize yourself as an artist.

With anything I do, it's hard to categorize it. With any project, I just go in and blindly start writing songs and then find out which way we want to go with it.

I love comedy. That's what got me into the arts. I don't even know how to categorize myself anymore.

I don't categorize myself as an 85-year-old woman who has written an erotic novel. I categorize myself as a writer who's written an erotic novel.

A director is a director. We shouldn't categorize one into a this or that director.

I was probably 16 or 17 when 'Core' came out, and I just remember how Scott could cater to the song and create these characters. That blew me away.