Quotes About Creativity

If I know something's expected of me, I won't wear it or do it. It just seems boring.

I always knew that I was an artist. I never expected to be able to make a living.

Actors want to act. I think a lot of times what happens is that they're expected to bring it all. Probably because I'm a writer, I'm not telling them what to do. I just provide them with as much as I can.

I get excited by landscape.

I really do believe that art changes the landscape of the world.

A lot of writing is a form of seeing - putting down what you see in terms of action and landscape.

We had nothing, no television, no radio, nothing to get in the way. We read by the streetlight at the top of the lane, and we acted out the stories.

I'm in the lane where I can make music but also have it be funny and still good at the same time.

When people say, 'Stay in your lane; you're a musician, so you should only talk about music,' what do you think songs are written about? I connect with music because what somebody has said has resonated with me in one way or another.

I respect artists that know how to be artists, that know how to create their own lane and make people respect them for who they are and what they represent.

What I try to do is find a language for life.

My language is what I use, and if I lost that, I wouldn't be able to say anything.

I've done songs in other languages. I know how hard it is.

I would like to make a film in the four South Indian languages.

I'm a great fan of taking my laptop out and about.

You can't really sit and start singing into a laptop at an airport. Well, you could, but you'd have a lot of sound in the background.

I don't edit on laptops anymore.

As a comedy writer, I work largely from home.

One of my goals in making music is to make the world seem bigger, and life seem larger.

The influence of culture and arts is much larger than the influence of economy sometimes.

We experimented with stuff that some might find crazy, but we wanted to widen and make the spectrums of influence much larger, because house and electronic music is about freedom.

I had no idea I would be able to have a career in drag that's lasted this long, at the level that I get to do it at.

I don't think I can create anything of lasting value unless it comes from the heart.

The key to being a great band that lasts is always going to be making sure you write really good songs and put on really good shows.