Quotes About Creativity

I'm a late bloomer. It's taken me a long time to find my voice, and I think all the records I've made over the years, I was finding my voice, and that's part of the process.

People like Beck and Shawn Colvin are some of the people I listen to lately.

I've been taking longer to write stories lately.

I always say the new album is the best one yet. I always feel that - I really do, because it's the latest and it's the newest and it's a little bit better.

My latest works are these things with light bulbs.

I like 'Firework' because it is very different from our past songs and was inspired by the Latin genre.

Believe me, when I saw 'Family Guy' do the bit on 'Africa,' I howled laughing.

People think they are not allowed to laugh at art, but they are. Damien Hirst laughs at himself. I know Jake and Dinos Chapman and they laugh all the time at what they do and at other artists.

One song will launch you, but you don't want to be a one-song artist.

Laura Marling is Joni Mitchell-level for me.

I don't think you can write according to a set of rules and laws; every writer is so different.

After I'd been a lawyer for about five or six years, I started playing around with fiction.

I don't come from a creative background. I don't know anyone in my family who is a musician or actor or singer. It's a lot of teachers, lawyers. Professional stuff like that.

It takes four people to lay out the 'Flintstones.'

My passion for music lay dormant during my football career and now I can explore it.

Well, I don't really use MIDI that much. But I do record audio around me a lot, and just layer it up and see what effect it has, without any aforethought.

I love layers!

The layers you get in graffiti, the ornateness, you can hear it in my music. I paint with my music. It's a form of synaesthesia.

If I'm not on tour, then I'm sometimes laying down four or five records at a time.

But the star thing I can live with. The music I can't live without. And that's how it lays out for me, you know. I got as big an ego and enjoy the attention.

I tend to write and record things quite quickly. You can tamper with things for years, and it's artistic laziness sometimes.

If I weren't so lazy, I would have 14 books, not eight.

I think of myself as a very lazy author.

I always thought being an artist was a lazy job. I was wrong.