Quotes About Creativity

The Internet is just a chance to do something. Nowhere else can you go, 'I have an idea, I can write this idea, and I can execute this idea.'

My best moments are when I write songs out of nowhere.

You can only be yourself, and it sounds cheesy, but when it comes to filmmaking, there's really nowhere to hide.

Every book has to start with a first chapter, and I think that 'Middle of Nowhere,' 'Mmmbop' and 'Where Is the Love' are good places to start for us. I don't think it's a bad place.

Many filmmakers have had that experience. They make a movie, then out of nowhere, they either pass censorship or fail.

I don't think people realize how many scripts you write that go nowhere.

It can't just be about being sexy. It has to have all the emotions involved, I think, on the album and in the live show. Because if you do all sex, you lose all of the other beautiful things that should be a part of it... And just being sexy will get you nowhere.

I generally write the songs accidentally. They generally come out of nowhere.

The artistic world is one of high nuance.

In the early days, I had very little idea about arrangements, and I wrote songs a little flat, as it were, just on an acoustic guitar. They didn't really have quite enough nuance.

Whether I'm making a gluten-free cookie or a lactose-free milkshake, my end goal is always to make it so awesome, clever, and creative that you'll want to indulge whether you have a sensitivity, dietary nuance, or don't.

When you go to Nashville and start co-writing, you start doing it as a job and the more you do it the better you get. You know if you build houses for 30 years you're better than you were the day you started. You know the ins and outs, you know all the nuances.

I'm a writer, so I like nuances.

A musical by its very nature doesn't allow for a lot of nuances.

Sometimes, if you leave yourself open, an actor can bring nice nuances to a character.

I am who I am. I can't do anything that doesn't have nuances of all the music I've done in the past.

You work on something for so long that you become numb to it. Like, you don't even know how to listen to it because you listened to it so many times.

Cinema is an art form, a result of dedication of a number of people.

The number of elements that have to go into a hit would break a computer down. the right season for that play, the right historical moment, the right tonality.

In getting Under Armour started, like any business, I think, number one, you need a great idea.

'The Nightmare Before Christmas' is my number one biggest influence artistically in every way.

There comes a point when you can more or less count the number of books you're going to write before you die.

I want to be the number one songwriter-producer guy of all time.

Our friends in the group Chicago, they just numbered theirs and we thought that was kind of neat but it made continuity from album to album and that was our way of doing it.