Quotes About Creativity

I was not an Abstract Expressionist. Nor was I an Irascible.

I try to sort of make myself emotional in the moment when I'm writing, and that always translates better. When I'm writing, I can't do abstract.

I write what I write in the way that I write it. I'm not being abstract, you know. I'm talking about something that, you know, is a part of my life.

An artist is always thinking of something else. My father was like that. He had this feeling of abstraction, and I do, too.

All theatre is absurd.

I think there's an abundance of talent in America and there will never be not a lot of talent out there.

The pop industry is so well-practised at channelling young people's creative energy that I think it gets abused.

At school, I had academia shoved in my face, but it was just stunting my creative development.

I'm an artist, I'm not an academic folklorist.

I'm not an academic, but I've always loved poetry since I've been small.

I think my mom always wanted to play the guitar, and somehow she projected that to me. So I started learning to play guitar when I was five years old, but actually I'd never managed to get the academic side of it. So even up to today, I don't know how to read or write music.

Accelerating, dribbling, and creating opportunities are the DNA of my game.

I suppose, back in the day, when I was on the stage, I had nothing to lose, and I did the accents.

I think my philosophy in music has been to accentuate the positive.

I learned long ago to accept the fact that not everything I create will see the light of day.

If I choose to direct something, it's because I don't think it would get accepted.

Fashion should be fun and accessible.

I think sometimes - not always - I write songs that are accessible.

I really want to do accessories, it's been something I'm interested in.

I decided to do everything around fashion but fashion itself, and that's accessories.

A lot happens by accident in poetry.

U2 is sort of song writing by accident really. We don't really know what we're doing and when we do, it doesn't seem to help.

I'm an accidental writer.

That's the way it happens - some characters you set out to use, some are happy accidents. As long as it works, it doesn't really matter how you got them.