Quotes About Creativity

The music I used to make was a lot more rock, so I come from this background of head banging a lot, and it took me a while to figure out how to do it in the context of our music.

Some thought it strange that we incorporated synthesizers in our music but the equipment was there so we just figured out a way to use it.

At the risk of sounding corny, the beach and the ocean are such a constant part of Los Angeles life, so that definitely seeps into our music.

I think... people are inspired by our music, and that's cool. We all borrow each other's music.

I feel like no matter what we do though, we'll always have hip-hop and a little bit of R&B in our music.

One reason we've been able to do what we do is that we never put our music into any kind of historical perspective.

All the stuff we have to edit out of our music, we put in our kids book.

Science is the greatest creative impulse of our time. It dominates the intellectual scene and forms our lives, not only in the material things which it has given us, but also in that it guides our spirit.

I let my people know that I'd love to work with Ryan Coogler one day because I thought he's just one of those truly auteur directors of our time. And I was just like, 'I want to work with a guy like that.' I think he has such a great understanding and distinct voice of his own.

Wanted to write fiction since I was 11, since I first read 'In Our Time' by Hemingway.

In my lyrics, I used to always state two years ahead. I did that to make it seem like we were ahead of our time - a time capsule almost. It had never been done before.

Everyone knows we take our time. We're really trying to be responsible with ourselves in trying to discover ideas that haven't been discovered before. It's kind of an alchemy, how we experiment.

I write songs, but the guys play on them, they have opinions on them, and we tour together and spend all our time together.

In our world, as artists, the only time I'm allowed to express myself is through song.

As a designer, I always want to put out to a larger public. I truly believe that all bodies are beautiful, and that's what makes our world exciting.

To me, there's so much we don't understand about our world, and I think it's really fascinating to see these people come up with the stuff that they come up with.

It's just always been a hobby of ours to make music that makes us happy and excites us when we make it.

You write a song; you know what you want it to sound like. With a band like ours, it's more about the collective. It's important everyone feels expressed and represented.

The Greeks, the Italians, and the Indians, from whom we get our ideas, erect monuments to ideas; we erect ours to men, and of such monuments we have an oversupply.

Every artist can make art only from the materials at hand, and many of the child stars who try to mature into artists can make art only from their knowledge - and ours - that they were child stars.

Ours is one of the last independent companies that offer a place you may write down your thoughts free from having to worry about whether they are offensive to one group or another.

We do this basically for ourselves. People appreciate it, which is cool, but I think they appreciate that we're doing it for ourselves. We're doing it our way, and how people like it is not up to us. We like it.

Our responsibility as artists is to challenge ourselves.

I am an artist... I am here to live out loud.