Quotes About Creativity

I got a lot of film companies approaching me to write some songs for their films.

It's very important that I'm approaching a character that I've either not played before, or I can give it a different take.

I love to read because I know that for a long time ancestors weren't allowed to. I love to write. Because for a long time my people weren't 'allowed' to. So I'm going to write my books, my apps and tell my stories.

I think it's always good not to listen to what the rules are supposed to be about the arc of the character and the third acts and all this stuff.

I thought I would be in a band like Arcade Fire or be like Fiona Apple - but pop just made sense to me.

My dad was really into avant garde jazz: Archie Shepp, John Coltrane and Pharoah Sanders.

I wanted to be an architect, an artist, or an actor.

Being an architect is like playing piano, you learn to play to admire how well the other guys play piano.

My father was an architect.

I actually feel like a very traditional architect.

I tell people I would like to have been an architect. I like the creative aspect of that. I like the idea of something on a piece of paper coming to life.

It is no use working with other architects. What can they do? Who does what?

I think architects design outside in. Or they design basically outside. They don't get in the building anymore.

Mr. Koons's work has always inspired architects, which I think is very interesting. I think he is an artist who has reinvented himself so many times and reinvented so many different series.

Architects think that beauty is a crime.

For me, architecture is not just creating a space to protect people but to make them dream as well.

I like to play with architecture! It's my favorite game.

There will never be great architects or architecture without great patrons.

I love art in general - architecture, anything creative.

I like the architecture of lingerie.

Architecture is a special kind of career that showcases the accumulations of culture, time, and history.

Never argue with your characters; they know themselves better than you do.

A lot of times, I walk down the street and listen to people argue, and then I write a song about it.

I'm a pluralist. I've always argued that as many different films as possible should be made.