Quotes About Creativity

I don't really think of myself so much as a writer as a stylist, someone who came into writing from the back door and has found it through a certain very specific and personal means.

TV stars don't know how to dress up, and they have to hire a stylist. This is true to a great extent. That's why I go out of my way to experiment. Sometimes I hit the bullseye, sometimes I miss.

I don't have a stylist.

If I could be a stylist, I would style somebody.

Fashion is about trying out new things and having fun, and me and my stylist, Zadrian Smith, are going to keep doing just that.

I thought I wanted to get into hair and make-up, which I did for a short time, and then I fell in with a stylist by chance and very soon fell in love with everything about the fashion industry.

I love the music video for 'Crash and Burn.' I was very excited to work with the director to make something stylistic and graphic.

If music leaves any impression at all, it does so without regard to stylistic issues.

Just because someone has stylistic limitations doesn't necessarily make them a worse writer.

What I wear onstage is so stylized and bold.

Stylized acting and direction is to realistic acting and direction as poetry is to prose.

If you pretend to be somebody that you're not when you write songs - and I did that on some of the early Styx albums - nobody cares about what you have to say.

When I went out and started making solo records, I was determined not to, I guess, put my name on an album that sounded like Styx. I wanted to carve my own niche, so quite frankly I went in a different direction.

When it came time to do 'One Hundred Years' I had been encouraged to really make a Styx album without the guys. I gave myself permission to do that. I set out to get people who sang with me who could make those harmonies.

I've always been able to just concoct a melody quite easily - it's just kind of instinct, really. You've got to channel your subconscious.

I don't know why I paint what I paint. I think it comes out - it's kind of my subconscious or something.

It just comes out of my subconscious. If you asked me to draw you a doodle, I couldn't do it.

The comics are where all the crazy subconscious stuff comes out.

I don't mess around with my subconscious.

I just kind of conjured them up out of my subconscious and put them in order of ascending peculiarity.

When you write a story, it just flows and you don't control it. It's subconscious.

You don't realize until afterwards that if you feed the subconscious, it will bleed into your everyday life.

When I sit down to make music, I try to enter a flow; I always open a blank session and just make something that I feel like making. Only after a piece of music is done does my frontal cortex allow me to organize what might be trying to come out of my subconscious.

The main factor in any form of creativeness is the life of a human spirit, that of the actor and his part, their joint feelings and subconscious creation.