Quotes About Creativity

There are almost no limits in terms of what a car can become.

The imagination has its limits, and you have to face up to that.

I pretty much do whatever I want when it comes to music and nothing is off limits to me.

There are absolutely no limits with podcasting because you can do anything you want.

I've always been political but I don't like to bring it into my work any more because I think it limits me.

There's no limits other than my imagination, which is fantastic.

I don't think in a linear form.

I don't want to say the same lines every night.

Reciting lines is hard; making stuff up is much, much easier.

I wrote 'Linger' in about eight minutes. But some songs will take weeks to write.

All culture, all important culture, is always linked to how people express and experience being alive.

Lip synching in a video is usually my idea of hell.

I've always used music for my acting, and I do have a kind of a very personal play list that I create.

When I look at the list of my favorite works, writers who are women do tend to outnumber writers who are men for whatever reason.

I always listen to music while I draw.

Obviously, it's great to know that your music is being listened to.

I think that the music that I listened to turned me into the artist that I am.

People associate me with Al Green and Curtis Mayfield, but these aren't people that I listened to growing up. I got into them much later.

I listen to a lot of Eighties hip-hop. I listened to a lot of Ice-T.

You go and you see a piece of art; you're looking at it outside of you. When you listen to a song, the singer's voice is being put together in your own head. The effort that you as the listener has is part of the artwork in a sense.

Music has been there for me. Whether good or bad, it's the way that I process experience. As a listener and as a writer.

I used to consider the listener. But now I'm in a space where, if I'm not inspired, I can't really do the music. I can't feel it.

Sometimes, when you get into a record, it's like writing a book, and you get so far inside the story you can't tell anymore if it's gonna be good to an outside listener.

I haven't said this yet, but my goal for this 'Beautiful' album is not to say, 'I'm beautiful,' or, 'OK, I'm so cool.' This is, honestly, an album written for the listeners.