Quotes About Creativity

The songs I write and the way I see the world have been affected a certain amount since I became a father.

This is why fiction is an art, and life is not - how much more affecting is the lie than the truth.

I know how music makes me feel; I know how it affects my life.

You can make what you want. People care about what the artist has to say, what the sound is, and how it affects them.

I've worked on shows where the set was very morose and boring, kind of like nobody wanted to be there. I felt that affects the work.

I'm an artist; affirmation is like catnip to me.

When I was growing up, my parents thought there could be nothing better than being a writer. And at that time, society afforded that impracticality.

People think writing a children's book is something you could do in an afternoon but it's actually really hard.

In the afternoon, it's impossible to put down any new words. I don't even try.

Stories come to me and I don't know where they come from, but afterwards I can look back and say, 'Oh yes, that's got a little bit of me, or a little bit of my own son in it'. That's where ideas come from.

We couldn't afford to move, so we decided to start up a model agency.

We're very much an advertising agency, but it's not about creating ads as we know it.

I don't want Droga5 to be the biggest agency; I want it to be the best.

I was working with Prahlad Kakkar's ad agency. Somebody saw me there and 'Shanti' happened.

No artist gets work through an agency and it's only working artists who keep getting more work.

I grew up listening to so much different pop and stuff other than just aggressive music.

Most of my songs start out as being very aggressive and guitar-driven.

You write what makes you laugh, and you hope that the audience agree, and so far they do.

I think there'll always be a kid with a guitar with a song in his heart that's going to turn me on - that's as far as I can see. Whether lots of people agree with that, I'm not sure.

Everybody agreed I had all this talent, but I didn't know what to make of it.

I can think of nothing worse than a think-tank where everybody agreed.

I don't know what aids creativity. All I know is that it feels natural to hold a guitar in my hands and sing.

If I've made money from music, it was never my aim to do that. I didn't do it to become famous.

Music is music. It doesn't matter if I am trying to aim at country or trying to aim at pop.