Quotes About Creativity

I see people doing things in their Blackberrys, and I need paper. Lines. Alphabets. I need to see it. It's so elementary, man.

If you write something that's personal, there's going to be elements of yourself in it.

Sometimes you cannot produce a specific sound you want with, say, a guitar or piano, and you simply need to use electronic elements.

Well, I started writing songs about three years ago when I learned to play the guitar, but I've been singing since I was eleven.

I've always been an elite artist.

The art house is an elitist idea.

I don't think all music that is considered 'avant-garde' is bad, but it's definitely elitist. I hope my music is not that.

As a director, it just makes my life fantastic to work with people like Elizabeth Hawthorne.

Comedy has lost its eloquence.

I've written so many songs about Englishmen, I have to go elsewhere.

It's never been my goal to create something that is found on the internet elsewhere. I only want to create things that are new.

Elvis Presley's music said, 'Free your body.' The Beatles said, 'Free your mind.'

You don't necessarily have to write a song to make it your own. After all, Elvis never wrote a song in his life.

My music, certainly, has never embarrassed me.

I can't write things. I'm embarrassed all the time about that, particularly if people don't know that about me.

The job of the artist is to go to the places where most other people are embarrassed to go to. And show it.

I'm happy to do gay material, and I'm gay, and I'm not embarrassed about it, but it's nice not being limited to only doing gay material.

There's nobody in the arts in my family. It was kind of embarrassing to even say that I wanted to be an actor.

Acting is embarrassing.

Because somebody plays guitar, why does it mean they need a singer? Because people already have this image of things? No, I'll put my music together, then think about whether I need to embellish it with a singer.

Fiction allows you to embody certain ideas and give them an emotional reality. The characters allow you to get close viscerally to an idea.

I think, for the most part, our culture embraces that artists are born, not made.

Whatever it is that makes your movie unique is something you should embrace.

It's great making a film and having it embraced and seen. I really enjoy that.