Quotes About Creativity

I said that when I establish myself as an artist that can do pretty much anything I want to do in music, I'm going to make a country album.

I think the character of a man is to establish something where no one else has ever done before.

I've managed to keep a lot of respect in radio because I write my own stuff. I've had a lot of success as a singer/songwriter. I think if you establish yourself that way, it is harder to throw you out with the bathwater.

Fiction is the thing I esteem most in my own work; I feel that, even if it's no good, only I could have written those books.

You can have all personality in the world, the looks, etc., but if you don't have the songs, it doesn't close the deal.

I still believe that the best art - be it music, comedy, painting, etc. - is the art that hasn't been asked for, or is expected.

I wrote my first book without being to Ethiopia since I was two years old.

My ethos is musical freedom: to create whatever I want.

With each song, I'm trying to go after that feeling of elation, of euphoria. It's not the only feeling in the world; it's just the one I thought I should try to focus on and find the most effective way of getting there.

I'm really drawn to European films.

I thought actors were artists and that artists had to be European.

A lot of Luis Bunuel's later, European films are all great.

You can't evaluate your situation when you're in a band, not really.

Killing Eve' was kind of the road for me as an art person, where you have this opportunity to work with so many different writers, so many different directors, and so many actors at the same time.

My days are always changing, as some days, I'm on a shoot, or I will be DJing in the middle of the day or evening.

I get up in the morning, get to the office, and write until about six o'clock in the evening.

I play the piano when I'm alone at home in the evening. Sometimes for friends when we are together, singing together, to create a nice atmosphere.

In television, what you have shot in the morning, may go on air that very day in the evening; but films give you a lot of time to work on your character.

Music is a spiritual event and a means to realize freedom.

Eventually you get to this point where you understand what you want to do and get across and sound like.

Every author has to eventually write a food book.

Any time I get a chance to work with artists that make me inspired and learn new stuff about music - every chance I get, I'll take.

Even though we're all together making songs and I produce them, it's so her vision. Especially when we walk out on stage every night. It's so meticulously thought through by Billie and I admire that endlessly in her.

I write every night.