Quotes About Creativity

I'm good at utilising body parts as letters.

My boys asked me to write beautiful letters for their ex-girls so they could get them back. I thought, 'I should be writing songs for myself.'

I'm a fan of writing, and writing letters, because I hate when I'm trying to get a thought out, and I can't.

It's all about letting the story take over.

I liked the idea of being a writer and letting somebody else do the graft.

Usually I spend a long while working alone before letting anyone read what I've written.

Part of me feels that I'm letting people down by not being as interesting as my books.

My music is not always about getting my ideas heard, it's about letting other people feel empowered to have their ideas heard by example.

A drawing is always dragged down to the level of its caption.

You know, people would always ask me, 'How long is Primus going to go on?' And I would say, 'Until it isn't fun anymore.' At the end of the '90s, it just wasn't fun anymore on many levels.

Busking taught me so much on so many levels, not just about being a musician or writing songs - actually about growing up and being a human!

Leona Lewis made some really nice albums.

Watch out, or I'm liable to put you in a story.

I was a good liar as a child.

My parents were quite liberal with us, always encouraging us to be our own person and be creative.

I was making more electronic and synth-based music, and when I changed my name, it helped me grow and liberate myself a little bit.

Music liberated me.

I think I am more liberated as an artiste in my late 40s.

That is the most liberating thing to feel as an actor: that you don't have to hold back or be afraid. A bit might not work, but it doesn't matter.

Singing was a liberating experience for me.

Being in front of the camera was very liberating for me.

As a kid, I used to go to the library and take out all the art books.

You can spend a day in a library and feel: 'Great, I've done a day's work.' But it's only research, not writing.

I dropped off my kids from 10 to 2, went to the library, and just wrote. This is my second career - I'm 41 - and I'm a terrible speller.