Quotes About Creativity

I want to put out a few books throughout my lifetime.

Personally, I've got too many ideas to use in my lifetime, probably. But that's a nice problem to have, I think.

You can work on music a few lifetimes.

Playing lifts you out of yourself into a delirious place.

It's always interesting when you're doing things yourself - getting the lighting, getting everybody together. It's exciting.

I don't use the word 'artists' lightly.

I Never Liked You. I think that's my best book. I think it works the best as a story, and I like the drawing. It works on both levels, for me at least.

There are a lot of people I would have liked to have collaborated with, and would still like to.

I've always liked to draw.

I think it was the fact that I liked it so much that made the writing just come out of me automatically.

I liked to play dress-up.

I never liked making albums.

I don't like overdubs, never liked them.

Little Walter I would've liked to have played with.

Every artist in the world likes his or her work to make people think.

We make our own music, and the songs appeal to the public well, and the public likes them.

I like coming up with new characters. Whether it's revamping an old character no one likes or just coming up with brand-new stuff, that's kind of what excited me as an artist.

We try our best every time to make engaging films that we're interested in, and we just hope the rest of the world likes them.

Everybody likes to listen to a song because it's fun, and nobody wants to sit around and listen to 'I-really-have-to-analyze-these-lyrics' songs all the time.

You can't try and make something you think someone else will like. You can only make what you like. How can you make a song that Yo-Landi Visser likes? You don't know me. You'll never understand me.

While I hope that people like my work, I don't think an artist should be afraid of ­people not liking his work.

I don't write anything if I'm not agreeable and liking it. I'm not one of these slavers who wads up paper. It comes or it doesn't.

I don't mind people liking or not liking me. If you make something and then in the back of your mind you think it could have been a bit better, that can hurt a bit.

I have not told anyone about deejaying. I developed a liking for it when I saw some girls becoming DJs.