Quotes About Creativity

When you do multiple things you love, it doesn't feel like work.

It's not easy to make friends when you're an adult writer outside of academia, especially when you work alone in a little room for twelve hours a day, and so I wrote toward what I most longed for.

Writing by hand is a way of letting mystery into my writing. But I'm constantly trying to figure out how to do this job. It's a work in progress.

When I write new worlds, I work in layers, building and throwing out, and building anew.

The songs that you work and work and work on sometimes are just forced and not as good.

Writing with other people is the only way I ever really work. In some ways it's great because it's helpful to someone pull you out of the loop.

My work is more about trying to ask good questions and not trying to come up with big shows. Every fashion company is doing that, every car company is doing that.

Fundamentally I think we all write the kinds of work we'd most like to read. Or we try to.

I was aware that people thought a certain type of photo work was either stealing, borrowing, copying or dumb.

The artist's work constitutes the only satisfactory relationship he can have with his fellow men since he seeks his real friends among the dead and the unborn.

Advice for young people who want to channel their personality into creative work - be authentic.

I like all my work equally. I look at the projects as children. I look at the experience more than the end result.

I'd love to work with Sufjan Stevens. He so gets it. He's amazing.

Work controls my life, writing controls my life, performing controls my life.

Artists themselves are neurotic and fearful people, and you can look at their work and figure out what they're scared of.

I would go to work from 9 to 6, go home, nap for two hours, then write from 8 to 2 a.m.

I use myself for each part. Naturally, it's my body, it's my soul, it's my feelings. That's the only way I know how to work. I couldn't pretend.

There's always something else to work on and different solutions to these problems in the next thing. We each have a certain set of obsessions which we each cycle through.

Sometimes you just feel like you could work forever on something and never know when it's done.

I bought [John Lennon's] 'Plastic Ono Band,' and I listened to it over and over for months. It's a monumental work of genius.

I feel like my best work is in front of me. I'm in the studio now, and I'm having an amazing time making this new album. It's something I can't help.

One of the things I find most mysterious in Picasso's work is what I would call the 'unlocation of place.

I can work on a verse for a very long time before realising it's not any good and then, and only then, can I discard it.

I would like to work with Pat [ Leonard] in any capacity. I would love to hear his versions.