Quotes About Creativity

Acting is an aesthetic career, which is annoying.

I still think of things for 'Jill' all the time. It's annoying, because I want to be able to find another character who I could write for indefinitely.

A writer is supposed to have anonymity.

Don't get me wrong: I love having my own song and being the center of attention, but I also love being part of the group and making the show work in a more anonymous way.

So after an album and tour are over I take 6 months to a year to do other things. Once I went to University and studied screen writing. Another time I learned to dance.

When I got into music, that was another way to be by myself.

I do want to go another way - to write something completely different.

I'm not answering questions with my songs.

As a director, I never feel that I have the answers.

I'm inspired by questions I have that I try to figure out the answers to through my writing.

Every album, I make big records. I'm going to always make an anthem. That's what I do.

If you asked me to make a Gaslight Anthem album on my own, I would say, 'No way, that's crazy.' I would never have been able to do that.

Generally, I'm not anti the novel.

Writers, at least writers of fiction, are always full of anxiety and worry.

I tend to write about my anxieties - it's what I'm afraid will happen. And I write a story working it out.

All my problems and anxieties certainly come out of my work, and that's the way it should be. Other than that, relationships with people I find very, very simple.

We thought: 'Let's write songs about our relationships, the world, our anxieties - let's make the most of this.'

Unless you sell millions, I think it's very hard as a writer not to feel anxious about what you put out. I always feel I could do better.

I write about what happens to me. It's all there. I couldn't do it any other way.

Nothing I can say or devise, and nothing anybody else can say or devise, is going to be perfect.

I have a lot of songs that I kind of put away, and I don't let anybody else hear them, and those are my songs.

I don't see myself as ever being like anybody else.

I don't think of my music in terms of a career. I just want to get it out there and do it. I'm not manipulating my sound to be like anybody or trying to write to sound like anybody else.

All my life, I wanted to sound like myself. I never wanted to sound like anybody else.