Quotes About Creativity

If you break up with your partner, go straight to the studio. You're going to make great music.

I can't draw a straight line.

Partly because of the way I write - I don't work with an outline or in a straight line. I work where I can see things happening, and so I get lots and lots of little bits to start with, and I'm doing the research at the same time.

I don't plan the books ahead of time. It's not like Harry Potter. I don't work in a straight line. I don't write with an outline.

The straight line is ungodly.

In my planet, fashion, I'm the only straight man.

You've got to be a really straight man to write a song like 'It's Raining Men.'

A straight writer can write a gay novel and not worry about it, and a gay novelist can write about straight people.

I hate going to the gym and doing it the old-fashioned way. I hate anything that's too straightforward, too routine, too familiar. I get bored really, really quickly.

I don't like straightforward drum sounds and hate snares; can't stand them.

I wanted to use what I was, to be what I was born to be - not to have a 'career', but to be that straightforward obvious unmistakable animal, a writer.

I actually find it's more interesting to play in the niches and find ways to apply technology to relatively straightforward problems.

The thing that's worked for me is having as much of a connection to the material as possible. And sometimes the material requires a more straightforward approach, and sometimes it requires a little more silliness, you know?

I find it hard to deliver straightforward things.

Where I'm at in my relationship with my wife or my family and life in general, I feel like it all comes out in the music. Hopefully, it's always there, but in an ambiguous and abstract way and not real straightforward.

Portraiture keeps me humble. It's simple and straightforward. There is nothing more interesting I can make up than the figure sitting right in front of me.

I write in a pretty straightforward way. I kind of sit down at page one and start writing.

I was a dramatic kid. I was always like, 'Watch me put on my play, Mom and Dad! You have to watch me put on all these outfits and do this play!' But my family is very academic and straightforward and normal Midwestern people, so the idea that I could act as an actual job wasn't really there.

For us to dial back a little bit and have a little more straightforward, singalong appeal was a challenge. In order to do that, we had to throw away a lot of stuff.

It was fun playing with those jumps and the flashbacks in 'Zombieland,' but I don't think you need it to make a good movie. It's fun to just do a more straightforward one.

Most songs on the radio are so straightforward and it just doesn't open up people's minds.

After 20 years of writing academic prose and lectures, it seems very familiar and straightforward to me. Writing a novel for the first time, I was reminded of just how difficult it is to figure out how to get this stuff done when you don't really know what you're doing.

If it weren't for painting, I wouldn't live; I couldn't bear the extra strain of things.

I hope to continue doing TV, and I think that what I've learned on 'The Strain' will come in handy.