Quotes About Creativity

I like to take music from everywhere and put it in my style and let it be accepted.

My music is not Christian - Lecrae is. And you hear evidence of my faith in my music.

The evolution of art is not only driven by artists, but by a conversation between the artists and the audience.

I guess with any type of music or any art, there's always an evolution.

It's all about evolution and for us, we try to think outside the box and not try to duplicate what we've done in the past.

I like to believe we're always looking to evolve as writers.

After playing for 40 years, I've been able to evolve the way I see the fretboard and how I hear the guitar in my head.

Our look evolved from the fact that we bought thrift-store clothes. It wasn't like, 'Let adopt a thrift-store aesthetic.' We just didn't have any money.

The game's evolving quickly, man, and somebody's gotta be trying some new stuff.

I'm trying to do the exact thing Verdi or Mendelssohn did - open up that spiritual space where we can all be fully ourselves.

That is one thing I really hate about working in TV - you have to shape episodes to exact time-lengths, do like 22 minutes, and it is just so against what you are making.

I make a film - and once I've made it, everyone comes along and says 'Ah! This is a film that's political, or social', or whatever. But I'm not telling the story that they see. I made a film, told a story, but I wasn't thinking about exactly what it all meant.

I knew exactly what to do on Alien, it was funny.

With TV, you have so much to get done during the day that you don't really have a lot of time to feel your way through it. I know before I walk on the set exactly what I'm going to do. With film you can kind of find your way in it a little more, play with it some.

I always start out saying exactly what everybody looks like. I don't know why.

I just want to be an artist that makes exactly what he feels.

I wrote 'Aadukalam' keeping Dhanush in mind. As an actor, he delivers exactly what I need and sometimes more.

I love working with artists who know exactly what they want.

Exaggeration is my only reality.

When I was growing up, the exam system didn't allow you to write fiction, so you never did.

I try to examine everything to see if there's another approach.

For me, one of the things art has to examine is how to live your life, and unless it's doing that, it doesn't work for me.

There are beautiful examples of art done by chimpanzees in human care.

There haven't been many examples of times when we've done a cover and not put it out in some form.