Quotes About Creativity

I'll read a book. I'll watch a documentary or a film or whatever. I'll go to an art exhibit and just try and open myself to influence.

I've always loved singing. I find it exhilarating.

I would never write, ever. I might as well exile myself.

I don't exist without writing.

Electronic music has existed since the '70s, and it's almost comical how many subgenres of it there are.

There's a side of me vocally that people didn't know existed. I had to get it out of me.

When you use words, you're able to keep your mind alive. Writing is my way of reaffirming my own existence.

Usually, a band 20 years into its existence doesn't put out its best records.

I think the reason why Off-White exists is to modernize fashion.

Hollywood exists only for the B-movies. The best things are coming from Europe.

People think of me and think, 'Ibiza and hippy look.' I'm trying to expand.

I think being part of Pentatonix has helped my arrangement style a lot, and that's helped me expand myself.

I often start writing in order to excite an expansive emotion.

I think the only way I could make something fun and big is if I don't expect it to be.

When you're an artist, you have to hope for everything and expect nothing.

As an actor, you want to do something which audience don't expect from you.

And I'm working at trying to find a kind of language where I won't be so easily modulated by expectation.

When I write, I don't have any expectation of what kind of song it will become or who it might reach.

I never do any song with any expectation.

I've done some really off-the-wall stuff and stuff that people might not expect. That's one way to work through people's expectations of you.

You can't write about a personal struggle if you're going to water it down to meet everyone's expectations about what's appropriate.

One of the expectations growing up was that I'd become a well-known artist.

I never felt like I had to sound like my dad. I wanted my music to be creative expression with no expectations.

I never expected to make a lot of money from music.