Quotes About Creativity

If something becomes old-fashioned, it was no good to start with. Think about it. Michelangelo is not old-fashioned.

As you get older you're told to be sensible, but it's important for writing if you're a comic that you're able to still access that childlike thing.

My family is all musicians - my dad plays drums, my mom plays flute, my older brother plays drums, my little brother plays drums and piano. For some reason, I didn't get the memo, so I just play bass.

I've always like 'Dragonball Z' and 'Naruto,' that kind of drawing. My older brother draws so he was always drawing 'Dragonball Z' characters and so I got into it from there.

I don't want to be known as the one who makes movies for older people.

I wanted other people to see what's in my mind as a young 14-year-old girl because sometimes, when men - or just older people - try to make films from what they think is a kid's perspective, it doesn't come out the right. It's like, 'Ehhh, that's probably not what we would do!'

I do read a lot of autobiographies and biographies but from people who are not in my field - older women, older artists, Miles Davis.

I think younger women need older women to get where they need to be. I think women turn out the best work in the world.

The idea that a man should be wearing something different and more eccentric is obviously the oldest idea on earth.

I am the oldest young designer in New York City.

When we home schooled my oldest, Jasper, in eighth grade, I saw how empowering it is for a child to learn in their own way. That rebooted my thinking about education.

Basically, I try to let the song dictate what guitar I use. If it's a really loud, crazy song, I'll pull out the cheapest, oldest guitar I own, one that feeds back easily. But most of the time, I just use whatever's around.

I don't want to be an oldies act, kind of dragging around on the road just for the money.

I listen to a lot of oldies stuff. Some Motown, Michael Jackson, jazz, etc.

We wrote 'Olive Kitteridge' as six hours, and they asked us to make it in four.

I listened to King Oliver and I listened to Louis Armstrong, Jelly Roll Morton, Thelonious Monk, Charles Mingus, John Coltrane, Archie Shepp... I listened to everything I could that came from that place that they call the blues but, in formality, isn't necessarily the blues.

Something I found while writing 'Alice & Oliver' - a book that is unquestionably a work of fiction, but which also borrows details from my own life - is that writing the truth often requires invention and imagination.

Working with Olivia Scott Welch was such a dream.

1988 Olympic Champion Brian Boitano was famous for doing a Lutz with one arm over his head. And I wanted to build on that.

I'd like an omelet named after me.

The riffs, lyrics, and drums of 'Open Your Omen' will tell you a lot.

My wife and I were in a band and worked together on and off since we were 19 or 20.

When you put everything you have into making music, both on and off the stage, it can be very frustrating when the music you work so hard to create is not allowed to see the light of day.

Cafu was a leader on and off the pitch and it was he who invented the concept of right-backs running from corner to corner.