Quotes About Creativity

I was never growing up saying, 'Dude, I want to sing in a band.'

He didn't have to worry about the music, because he wasn't doing any of it. Eazy was a blessed dude.

If there's five dudes on a song, probably three of them are only really good.

I'm not one of these writers who says, 'Oh yes, the next book is due out in one year and three days.' I just say, 'You're gonna get it when it's done. It's gonna be good, but you're not going to get it until it is good.'

If we want good stories, writers should be given their due.

I don't write duets - I write songs for my voice.

I love design-based stuff. I dug it in 'Pleasantville' and dug it in 'Seabiscuit.'

Thundercat put me on to George Duke.

The second track I made was the record 'I Got U,' which ended up becoming the Duke Dumont single with me featuring. It changed my life.

I don't want to do architecture that's dry and dull.

If I make a happy, happy movie one day, I'll think it's dull.

Bios are always so dull and boring.

I never want things to be dull.

I started as a writer. I had the dumb act, but I made my living from writing.

There's sacrificing for your art, and then there's just being dumb.

When you can't dunk anymore, you have to find a way to make it into the news.

You name it, we had it. It won't happen again. You're not going to duplicate this show.

I really want to complete films in a shorter duration, but somehow it does not seem to happen.

'Dust Off And Dance,' the album, was really all about me being in England.

I've always loved Dusty Springfield and Martha Reeves.

There's nothing Dutch about my architecture.

All my life, even as an actor, I felt like I was really trying to be dutiful, which sometimes got in my way of being creative and being an artist.

My passion is writing, but it is also a fight because I still see home as a woman's duty.

Fiction is burdened for me with a sense of duty.