Quotes About Creativity

I'm of the school 'Write what you know.' You can educate yourself, but the best writing usually comes from the heart.

A lot of times, jazz musicians try to educate people. What other genre does that?

You know, I don't think you need to be educated to be a great actor.

I've always been a huge John Guare fan. But Edward Albee - he just can't be beat.

Drugs will have a huge effect on my work for the rest of my life, whether I'm using or not.

Honestly, I think most directors are about, 'Let's do the most fun and effective thing here and figure out how afterwards.'

People who want to express themselves effectively can learn a lot from the hard-won concision of the copywriter.

It's just really efficient to work with a person who can do everything in the studio.

I'm not the kind of writer that can write eight hours a day... I'm the kind of writer that the more time I have, the less efficient I am.

I've tried writing on a computer thinking it would make me more efficient, but if you're writing crummy stuff, being efficient is no help.

Every artist knows the songs that come out naturally, almost effortlessly, are the songs that do the most.

I selfishly like a lot of first-time directors because they over-prepare, they're super eager, and there's very little ego.

I have to not let anything get to me and not get an ego about it and just do what I want to do, do things because I like them, and make the music that I like unapologetically.

'Drag Race' has taught me a lot about how to form community, to take myself less seriously and lose some ego.

I always had this ego where if I ever wanted to come back to doing rap, I could do that. That was not true. I would get stuck, I would be in a room and someone would ask me for something and I didn't have it.

I'm not actually sure that actors or artists should be allowed to have a family, because the focus you need, the egotism, the myopia, is just taking away from the relationship.

I started writing songs when I was eight.

I wrote my first play when I was eight.

It usually takes me a year to do a book. A year or eighteen months.

The Lovemongers came together because we felt kind of overinflated by the end of the Eighties.

I'm not going to stop just because I'm 78. Bunuel made films into his eighties, and he could hardly see. I hope I don't run into that problem.

I think there's a way to do classic songs and produce them electronically, and I feel like the eighties did a lot of that.

Eighty percent of my job is to ask the question, 'If this were real, what would it look like?'

If you like my music, great, and if you don't, whatever. I'm going to keep making it either way.