Quotes About Creativity

When we do reggae, it's normally a one-chord or a two-chord, or whatever it is. With Sting, there'll be chord changes, key changes.

For a long time, I believed that a great piece of music on its own could do more to stir the soul than any other single art form.

If your work isn't exciting, doesn't stir the emotions, where's the challenge? Where's the progress if you always play it safe?

I think the job of artists is to stir things up.

I never thought of myself as capable of stirring up - generating - the actual drumroll for a record, you know, all the press.

I can stitch a song together in about an hour anytime you want, but it won't have the depth.

I see potential in everything. It's about opening your mind to what you can do to the garment: because they're cheap, you can cut them or stitch them, and if you stuff it up, it's fine - it's only two dollars.

With my fashion knowledge, I do stitch things randomly at times.

I consider that a man's brain originally is like a little empty attic, and you have to stock it with such furniture as you choose.

It was a fine cast and lots of fun to make, but they did the damn thing on the cheap. The backdrops had holes in them, and it was shot on the worst film stock.

If I had a stock of fabulous sounds I would just always use them. I wouldn't bother to find new ones.

On Lock, Stock, we didn't know where the money for shooting the next day was coming from.

I opened up Shutterstock to the whole world. I created a contributor community that anyone could give stock photography a shot.

I was with the Jessie Bonstelle Stock Company in Detroit and Buffalo for three seasons - 10 performances and a new play every week. She was an amazing woman who did a great deal for me.

I thought 'Lock Stock' was a good film. I thought 'Lock Stock' was a good film because I think it was a one-off before it was imitated a hundred times.

I know it's a stock answer, but besides acting, I'd love to produce and direct.

Loads of players love the stock markets. For me, it's fashion.

I look at making records like you make a dish. A culinary experience. The way you throw in a tambourine, it's like spices or herbs. The main part of the song is the stock.

Any cartoon that can be liked by a committee is really not worth drawing; in fact, must not be drawn at all! Better to become a stockbroker.

When I was in fourth grade, I made a song about the part in Stockholm where we come from.

There's this Afghani kid in Stockholm called Phat Deuce who's started sending us his music, and he's amazing.

I left home when I was 16 years old, and I've been living all around the world honing my craft. I lived in L.A. for eight years, then Stockholm, London, and New York.

I do recommend it for all girls, and boys, out there: put on a pair of fishnet stockings and find your inner sexiness!

I was supposed to be working on 'The Weekenders,' but I was blocked. I got this crazy idea that I would make Christmas stockings out of blankets.