Quotes About Creativity

I get angry about stuff, I get very emotionally intense about stuff and that's how I get it out - with books, with the band, on my own onstage, but it's always kind of a wail.

I'm always trying out new stuff onstage. That's where I do all my writing.

Plays are frequently infected with ideas that came from actors or even sound engineers. Some Shakespeare scholars wonder whether some of the Bard's lines came from onstage improvisations by actors.

Onstage, you can be anything you want to be. In concert, I might project a different side of myself, but I wouldn't do anything I'd be embarrassed of.

You never know what's going to happen next onstage.

There is nothing - nothing - like writing a great joke and having that joke kill onstage.

Singing is about telling a story. When you are onstage, you get to be your own self... When acting, you're someone else.

Me in my music and onstage - that's me without any fears of judgement; that's me when I'm shining.

Onstage is the one time in my day that I can let it all out.

I was just making music in my bedroom. I never wanted to be onstage.

I don't sit and write stand-up material; I come up with an idea onstage.

'You Can't Take It With You' has eighteen people onstage at one point. Musicals entail a larger collaboration, and I love that.

I love being onstage, whether it's dancing or acting - there's just something about being onstage.

In TV and movies, you get known for a certain thing, and that's what's expected. Onstage, people are more open to whatever character you create from one play to the next.

I would be onstage all the time if I could.

I don't practice or write stuff down - everything I do onstage was just made up before I went on.

I absolutely loved improv! I felt very much at home being onstage. It freed me to be all sorts of people other than myself. It was an escape from myself, if you will. I still love that creative freedom of improv and making people laugh.

I was onstage singing with Luke Bryan, and he started singing a song that we hadn't rehearsed. Both Luke and myself just winged it.

I didn't know if I could be funny on stage or write a joke. But I saw that there are no rules. If you're funny offstage, you can figure out a way to be funny onstage.

I can't just play in a rock band. The National is a great, exciting band to play in. We improvise a lot onstage, and it's very intense, but after a while, I crave other kinds of experiences.

The best thing about theatre is that every time we get onstage, the show is new.

You don't realize how much you miss it until you get back onstage and feel that buzz.

It fascinated me, these kids who would sit in their living room or bedroom or kitchen and sing to the camera and act out the song fully as though they were onstage. Because a lot of musical theater kids... do that alone in your bedroom when you're a kid. But for someone to go and put that online? That's just so embarrassing!

Theatre comes alive when someone cross-dresses onstage.