Quotes About Creativity

I've always seen myself as a working musician but now there's no money in records for the artist at all, it's all in live performance.

We look at our albums as stand-alone pieces of art and also as adverts for our live shows.

Live shows have been going on for so long, can you really do something that's never been done before?

I'm a true fan of animation, and it's my livelihood.

I've been honestly sitting in the living room every day doing little DIY projects. Painting and making stuff and all that stuff. That's been kind of cool. I got to find out I apparently have a passion for that.

I started acting in my parents living room when I was five years old.

If I was writing songs just for me I'd only play them in my living room, alone.

A child's mind is its living room; it's going to be residing there for the rest of its earthly existence.

A child's mind is its living room; it's is going to be residing there for the rest of its earthly existence.

I can write in my living room with my wife and kid around.

I'd rather go to school and do loads of music than anything else.

I did loads of sessions with Andrew Oldham.

I was clear that I wanted to do music and I wanted to write songs. But I wasn't clear about how I was going to make that happen. I wrote loads of songs but didn't want to show them to anyone.

I cut up loads. I always want everything shorter, shorter, shorter.

I don't want to be the same all the time and changing my hair is loads of fun.

Art, location, money - I say as long as you've got one of them, you're fine.

I often know what my subject is and what my location is. I know my start and my end, and the rest I leave up to the relationship.

A lot of times, our greatest minds are locked into a 9-5 job.

I write a lot when I'm feeling bummed, but other times, you get locked in, and it's totally personal. If you're really low and writing, you're not thinking about anybody at all.

No I.D. executive-produced 'Under Pressure' and helped me find the Logic sound that's evolving every day.

You have to follow the logic of your characters while you're writing.

Whatever I think the song sounds like is what I'll name it. It's a feeling thing; it's not logical at all.

I'd never have written the big books in London.

I do think you get lonelier and lonelier being an artist as you get older.