Quotes About Creativity

I love Channel 4 and Clerkenwell Films, they aren't afraid to take risks.

I think all my anger and hate comes out in the music; that should be the way you channel these things. It's like, I don't go out and beat people up, I do it with my guitar.

In times of crisis the artist must rise to the challenge and try to make sense from the chaos.

We're all going about trying to make beauty in the world and trying to make order out of chaos. And that's what art is.

I love mishmash and the chaos of art forms.

Generally, my life is absolute chaos, but when I'm writing songs, it's very thought out and regimented.

I was born to a very large family, one of 7 kids. I grew up with carnivals and chaos all around me, so I can write anywhere.

Chaos to me is really important in music.

I think Sepultura, I have to say 'Refuse/Resist' is one of my favorite riffs. It's really energetic and I love the song. If you were to find a way to put the word 'chaos' into a song, it is the riff of 'Refuse/Resist.' It's chaotic, catchy, and heavy.

I'm not the sort of chap who can sit down and write music. When it comes, I'm happy.

When you look at your life as an artist, you do see that when you get to be 60, you're coming - this is the last chapter.

'Sixth Street' is probably a new chapter for me. All of the songs were written in my apartment where I'm most comfortable, and at that point, I understood who I was and knew what I was feeling about life.

I consider myself a character actor.

I'm always interested in what you can do with technology that people haven't thought of doing yet. I think that's sort of a characteristic of the way I've worked ever since I started.

All of my characters have a glint of madness.

It gives you a high when you create characters and make them do what you want them to do.

When I write, I just let my characters go, the way I let life go.

I like being a 10-year-old kid who's in charge.

It's new and different every night. The charge you get from a good audience is like nothing else.

We have Common on one song called 'Don't Charge Me With the Crime,' which is one of my favorite songs. It's a story song. It didn't really happen to us. But it's definitely fun to have him on the track.

I love Charles Baudelaire. Him and Shakespeare are the only people I think are better than me.

I'd work with Charles Kelley anytime. I'd go do a 'Pancho and Lefty' record with Charles. He is class, man.

I don't see myself as a great discoverer of artists, like Charles Saatchi.

It didn't matter that Charlie Chaplin may not have been a great director or a great anything else. He made great movies.