Quotes About Creativity

As long as we can control our creations, though, truly enormous life-changing advantages will result. These could do everything for us and enrich our lives in ways we can only guess at the moment. It could be a golden age of progress and discovery that will benefit us all. Some experts predict this precisely, but others foresee something far grimmer. Who will be right? What do you think?

Boredom is the coward's reaction to staring at a wall.

El arte es la ciencia de lo inútil.

Todo eso que está inútilmente añadido a la pura necesidad, es arte.

El arte es tanto más sublime cuanto mayor es su inutilidad.

Books don't need to be published," Lars Högström said. "The main thing is that they should be written.

I think that people who can't believe in fairies aren't worth knowing.

I think there's a time as a writer when you want to see the best things in life, and you go out wherever you go with your dreams as a writer or a composer.

People assume that all artists make for terrible business people, but I'm in complete charge of my own career.

If I was writing songs just for me I'd only play them in my living room, alone.

I don't see music as working.

There's a side to this industry that nurtures divas who can't write. It's a big business.

I've had to keep exploring different ways of presenting the music so I don't repeat myself.

When I was little, my mom tells me, I used to say things like, 'Mom do you hear the string section? Do you hear the string section?' And she would look at me and say, 'No honey, I don't know what you're talking about.'

Well, I have a lot of food references in my work.

Musically, I always allow myself to jump off of cliffs. At least that's what it feels like to me. Whether that's what it actually sounds like might depend on what the listener brings to the songs.

A guitarist or a drummer can get a cold and still play; I get a cold and sound like a wet mitten trying to sing you a love song. Charming.

We don't often see our own stories. Good artists are the ones that whisper our own stories back to us.

As soon as you stop being humbled by the creation process, Little One, it is so much bigger than you are. And when you think it is you and you are it, it will drown you or burn you alive.

Containment of your opinion is a must if you are going to nurture an artist's development

But over the years you can cultivate hate for the art you love.

What I wished another songwriter would have told me years and years ago is that your circumstances make up your story, and no one has exactly your story. It is your very own. You need never envy someone else's life story. Not as a songwriter.

A time came later in my youth when I had to find the bridge between the aspects of playing music that constituted communication with myself, and performance. That's when I got a repertoire together, things that people would like. This is why I've done covers over the years.

This is not your standard rock star's I-was-born-a-poor-genius self-deification, nor is it the opposite