Quotes About Creativity

When you get new people around you, the excitement is new because they have different take on your music. They play it in a different way, and that's always exciting to be around. It elevates everybody onstage.

I've always tried to do things a little bit before they were being done by the mainstream. I challenge myself to do that in stand-up also, to talk about things that I'm not hearing anybody talk about onstage and in the media.

I love getting to be onstage with so many great musicians.

I don't write anything. It's all done onstage, which is why I always tell younger comics that they just have to go do it. You have to get up, talk, and take a thought or a word and just expound, and you find it in there. I don't sit down and write.

A concert is my experimentation time. I practice playing something several different ways, but in a concert, inevitably I get more ideas onstage, in that combination of focus and adrenaline, than I could ever get in the practice room.

When I started stand-up, the people I admired most were the people who were the most themselves onstage.

When you know you have a good song, when you're onstage, even if it's just a weird, basic energy, you know your song is good.

A lot of people get a high from being onstage. I found ways to enjoy it. But I get it from being in the studio.

I might come across like kind of a show-off onstage and stuff, but I like collaborating with people.

Musicians want to be heard. So I'm not hiding. But I do like to leave it there onstage and be myself, in that sense. Because some people carry it with them.

For the second album, 'Discovery,' when we had to think about doing a live show I think we were not happy with the way it would look like and sound like. We were not happy coming onstage with just two or three samplers and a few drum machines, you know?

To be able to be at the level that I perform onstage, I have to embody everything I've made my music about. Which is me.

I think I'm a dancer in terms of what I do onstage.

Remember how small the world was before I came along? I brought it all to life: I moved the whole world onto a 20-foot screen.

You get onto the stage; you can shout and express yourself. Your negative energy gets consumed.

When I walk onto a set, no matter what it is, I always do the very best work that I can. But I'm not braindead, and I want to do things that I want to do, you know?

On one level, all of the characters in 'Game of Thrones' grow out of George R.R. Martin's imagination. Therefore they are his. As long as they are in the novels they are his. But the moment they step forth onto the TV screen, they become filtered through the showrunners. In a business sense, it's the same way with comics.

If you can find interesting ways to be clear, you're really onto something.

The writers and actors on 'Friends' were notoriously particular about what made it onto the air.

You have to be very flexible and understand as a director, especially as a writer/director, that you cannot hang onto stuff really hard. You have to be ready to accept those happy accidents and to anticipate that they are going to happen and capitalize on them.

When I write something that would have made me laugh as a 10-year-old, or would have scared me or would have excited me, I know I'm onto something.

I'm not 'Grace.' That album is like a brick onto itself. It's like a coffin that I put certain feelings and observations in so that they can be capsulized forever. I wanted to put them there so I would be free to move on.

The Yardbirds sort of disbanded, and I was disappointed because I thought what we were doing was really good. I thought we were really onto something. I thought I was really onto something with these ideas that I had.

I've been really trying to put people onto, like, my sound since I was, like, 17, 16.