Quotes About Creativity

Part of what I do comes from the fact that I don't know any jokes to tell. And when I do they're really flat and don't work.

Success for an artist is completed work. Very successful artists complete a lot of work. It's that simple.

I work without commercial considerations.

Original work has no floor and no ceiling. You can reach essentially zero readers or millions.

I always work from outline and almost always write out of sequence. It just works for me.

A poet's work consists less in seeking words for his ideas than in seeking ideas for his words and predominant rhythms.

When I'm dead I wanna leave a body of work, like authors or great painters do.

In my old age, my mind gets more open, and I listen to so many different types of music and I guess that all reflects in my work.

I get to work on things I've never done before and I get better at it, and I can do things that are innovative. Which I've done in my fifties, and want to continue to do through my sixties.

I am very present in my work and my work is somehow an expression of my soul, but at the same time I think that a writer cannot write out of nothing.

I never work from the script. I get the script more or less.

Often much of my work is very optimistic, or solution-based. I have always believed that art is a tool for transformation, and something that should give people some kind of agency.

You have to write or else the auditioning process becomes so grueling because it's so hard to work.

It's like a dream job to work with your friends.

There are so many designers that I love, and I'm so lucky that I get to work with so many of them and sometimes spend time with them.

It often comes down to the people that you get to work with, and to match or enhance their creation. I tend to fall in love with whatever project we are involved in at the moment.

Public commentary absolutely influences my work.

I like working with a first time director. I'm more likely to work with a first time director than I am a second time director.

Artists are expected to talk about their work but writers aren't expected to talk about their writing.

Most writers I know move back and forth between the rational and the intuitive, though there are some who approach writing very rationally, and others who claim not to think their work through.

So much of the work is intuitive. The resistance you detect is just that, a kind of evasion, a sense that too much analysis will inhibit creativity.

When I look at some of my old work, the pieces I find most interesting are the ones with people in them.

I'd love to work with Disney again.

If an artist wants to work with me because they feel I've made some credible albums and there've been things that are long-lasting, it's because those artists took the time and we built an idea.