Quotes About Creativity

Whatever a writer gets paid for his book, it's never enough. I think that's true. It's hard work. But in the end, you wrote a book. It's something real and tangible that sits on a shelf forever.

I work from a personal place, and the work has personal meaning for me.

Oh, I was never a very big Jim Woodring fan. I've never thought his work was that great.

Setting up absurd worlds with rules to violate - it's one of the things I hope to achieve with my work.

It's something I worry about when I'm working out. I don't want to get too fit. Because I don't want the new DaVinci of this Millennium to say, "You. I have found my muse. I have to sculpt you."

That's the hard work of writing. The imagining.

Songwriting is a great release. It helps me work through things.

I'll probably never put out another album because I'm a tough critic of my work, and I don't think I could come up to those standards any more.

That is one of the things about going on tour, that I get to work with some really talented people and it allows me to be able to listen to them as well - and just have fun on stage.

I was so fortunate to work closely with the designer Nolan Miller whilst on 'Dynasty' to create the wardrobe for Alexis Carrington Colby, and we had great fun sourcing outfits.

I have always thought that the photographer does artistic work and that art consists of working with fictional premises.

To work with Kaz on this kind of project is a fascinating process...He seems to be Dogen himself when offering the translations that we Western collaborators then refine with him.

I try to bear pain and not panic. I try to remember that it's got an expiration date, even if I don't know when that expiration date is. And I try to use it as fuel for my work.

I try to use pain as fuel for my work.

I feel like I'm getting better as a writer and as a singer and that there is more to discover there, so hopefully other people feel that way too without having to disassociate with the earlier work.

One of the reasons writers are never satisfied with their work is because they're always striving to do better.

I've worked with a lot of people on music and often times those things don't work out.

The best part of my job is that it really isn't a job at all, it's a labour of love. Every night is different, the people that you work with are all tremendous individuals.

I always like being surprised and sort of caught off guard by other people's work. So it doesn't cause me any anxiety to explore different avenues.

I suppose some people find their voice later than others, but it's interesting to look back at really early work to see that there's some kernel or a Rosetta Stone, in a way.

The more that I work with people that I don't know, the more I invite somebody in who's potentially going to really hate being there.

My work would have the impact of my unreality - my doubts.

My challenge as a satirical artist is how to present ideas to people to enable them to question and reexamine their beliefs. My hope is, that my work provokes people to look at things in a new way.

But my favorite work is always my next piece.