Quotes About Creativity

Why should I have to say bye to one thing to do another? I can do lots of things at one time, and as much as I love to do films, I'd love to do ads as well!

Coming up in bars and clubs, I would play anything that had a $20 bill attached to it. I did 'Like a Virgin' in a bar one time for a hundred bucks.

A novel, at least for me, cannot be visualized at one time.

You're only a new artist one time, and I can just say I'm so blessed. I feel so inspired to do other things, to be so much more.

Most men cannot write good sex. I tried one time years ago and showed it to my wife, and she felt like laughing.

After Strapping, the amount of things in my life had changed were more than I'd ever had to process in any one time, and as a result of that, I found that my writing was veering off in four - sometimes even more - directions.

With music I feel like it's the one time when I don't have to think and I don't have to contrive anything.

Poetry is like making a joke. If you get one word wrong at the end of a joke, you've lost the whole thing.

Sometimes kids ask how I've been able to write so many books. The answer is simple: one word at a time. Which is another good lesson, I think. You don't have to do everything at once. You don't have to know how every story is going to end. You just have to take that next step, look for that next idea, write that next word.

Not to be mean about it, but some great rock and rollers, like Bo Diddley and Chuck Berry, are pretty one-dimensional.

No artist is one-dimensional. I get the sense that if I push myself now and if I create a million different-sounding songs - I just feel that's going to be such a set-up for my ability in the future.

I was scared of failure, of being a one-hit wonder, never being able to write another song again, never being able to sing again. Maybe everything that I think I am and who I want to be never will happen.

I didn't want to be a one-hit wonder. I really wanted to make albums that had a different aesthetic every album and a different sound.

High-concept one-liners were huge when I got my start in the film industry.

Twitter is comedy writing. It's one-liners that give way to fully fleshed-out thoughts.

I definitely still like writing one-liners, but I also think that I've changed a lot in that I've allowed myself freedom to grow.

I like working one-on-one with someone, and I think that to go to a school of acting isn't really my thing.

I wouldn't be one-third of the player I am today if it wasn't for Avenged. They're an inspiring group of guys, and I'm constantly challenged to write things beyond my ability and then figure out how to play them.

I wrote a show - just as a joke, actually - and called it 'Bipolar, Bath, & Beyond,' just to bring some humor to it. I wasn't saying to myself that I'll 'come out' with it - I didn't think there was anything to 'come out' with - I was just writing another one-woman show about my life.

I did my one-woman show in order to show people what to do with me.

I just thought that if you are going to do a one-woman show you need to come with it, you know? Don't just stand there doing characters. You need to have something to say.

Since I was young, the artistic expression that fashion embodies has inspired me. It's a way to communicate oneself.

It is difficult to separate oneself from one's design moralities.

An idea's birth is legitimate if one has the feeling that one is catching oneself plagiarizing oneself.