Quotes About Creativity

There are a lot of artists who've said they'd like to work with me. To be honest, I'm not sure there is such a thing as an inappropriate artist. The trick is matching the artist with a story.

For me now, it's about what you would write and what you wouldn't write, and that's how I select what I am going to do. It can be quite nice being brought a concept by a studio for me to work on.

It's the way I like to work for these kinds of songs [like "Peace Trail"]. It was the right time of the month; everything was looking good.

The interesting artists I know are the ones doing political work. The most interesting people I know are the people who care about politics.

People wanted to get me published, and my early work was so weird that they weren't getting anywhere. I thought, okay, I'll do something that's just a tad more normal.

Just like everything, even the most fun and creative endeavor requires work to be successful, and I'm so sick of working. I'm a lazy person at heart. I never meant to be a go-getter.

I'm having a lot more fun living life. My new motto is "plerking" - I play and work at the same time.

Any writer likes to be near the area which is the location of his work.

The worst thing you can do is animate something, and then throw it out because it doesn't work, story wise.

In the novel, I can change things and simplify, and make events work towards whatever meanings I'm trying to get at more efficiently.

There's so much great stuff out there. The artists who've been most formative to me are the ones I've had the privilege to work with over the years.

I take a lot of inspiration from the people I work with, and having many collaborators keeps me challenged and inspired.

I used to believe that if I could do certain things - write a book or be a successful musician - that I'd be transformed into a happy person, but it doesn't work that way.

Superior writers, videographers and other content makers want to work with their own kind and for their own kind.

In fact, lots of good poetry doesn't work , so I don't mind a bit of mystification or difficulty.

When I find a cover song that I like, I'll work away at it until I kind of believe that I wrote it.

I work very hard on getting the songs as direct and examined as I can before I go in the studio.

I think that purity creates not only a higher level of artistic vision but a purer work ethic.

I have to admit to not being the greatest technician, but stop motion animation gives me licence to create machines that wouldn't otherwise be possible - inventions that seem real and actually work.

I always considered Ray Harryhausen's work so fine that it was way out of my league: in terms of realism and naturalism, in terms of animal movement.

Big actors want to work in television because they see it as being new and different.

As long as my work continues to speak for itself outside of what I look like, I'm okay.

I've been lucky to work with some of the most creative people and it's true that I enjoy filmmaking and I'm an enthusiast.

I would love to work with Tim Burton. I think we would be very good together.