Quotes About Creativity

When I was I kid, there were so many different things that I wanted to be. As an actor, I get a chance to be all of those things, at least for a couple of days, which is fun.

I'm embracing the punk. There's so much punk style in everything we do and wear everyday; we just never have the chance to do it all the way.

A young songwriter shouldn't think he or she doesn't stand a chance because someone has big corporate people behind him. Never look at it like that.

The golden rule of writing is to write what you care about. If you care about your topic, you'll do your best writing, and then you stand the best chance of really touching a reader in some way.

I'm kind of a nerd, so whenever I get a chance to talk to an artist I really admire, I tend to gravitate to process.

I thought, I'm in my late 50s now, am I ever gonna get the chance to do another album again?

If you enjoy math and you write novels, it's very rare that you'll get a chance to put your math into a novel. I leapt at the chance.

I'm grateful to have the chance to be inspired by the incredible artists that are out there.

Is there a necessary succession in style, or are these things pure chance?

I might, by chance, write something just as shoddy; But then I wouldn't show it to everybody.

If you write every day, you're going to write a lot of things that aren't terribly good, but you're going to have given things a chance to have their moments of sprouting.

The chances are that, in the course of his lifetime, the major poet will write more bad poems than the minor, simply because major poets write a lot.

I think that artists have a better chance at making great art if they know as much about every different area in the industry as they can.

When you have a chance to be an artist with an audience in your lifetime, you have to say thanks to your audience. That's a great thing. That's the best thing that can happen to an artist.

There seems to be a strange affectation in authors of appearing to have done everything by chance.

I made straight A's and never got into any trouble, and I still impose those standards on myself. So writing is my chance to escape and become the sleaziest, scummiest role.

The 'wandering studio' gathers and stores experiences, takes chances with the unfamiliar and requires a measure of self-trust. Mistakes are part of the change of scene.

'Encore' was an experiment. 'Encore' was the second chance at a first impression. 'Encore' was not completely planned.

Big flashy things have my name written all over them. Well... not yet, give me time and a crayon.

If you don't make Christmas presents, meaning making something that's so emotionally connected to people, don't talk to me.

I wanted to get the guy who works next to me in the office something he really wants, but how do you wrap up a saloon?

When I was about 15, I picked up the guitar and learned how to play by going through Beatles chords books. I got this Christmas gift with the entire Beatles catalog.

Best of all are the decorations the grandchildren have made ~ fat little stars and rather crooked Santas, shaped out of dough and baked in the oven.

Modernism is about space. Postmodernism is about communication. You should do what turns you on.