Quotes About Creativity

This nation loves singing and loves acting.

I am, at the end of the day, a guy who loves story.

My passion for music is one of my greatest loves.

I want people to say about me, 'I know he's making music because he loves it.'

I was one of those annoying kids that loves singing and entertaining.

I'd be really interested in making a dramatic, low key 3D film.

I think we're in a very low point of music right now.

We're making high-budget movies with a low-budget attitude.

I still, by and large, make low-budget Australian films.

Typically, with low-budget stop-motion, you can get away with a cartoony style.

Luck has a lot to do with being a musician.

Every song I've written is luck, I think; it's luck - 'How did that just happen?'

I think you should do what you like, and luckily, I am able to make money out of them.

I wasn't inspired by lunatic asylums or anything like that.

I wrote 'Criminal' in 45 minutes when everyone else went to lunch because I had to have a hit. I can force myself to do the work, but only if someone is right up behind me.

I'd love to a duet with Luther Vandross.

It's funny; Luther and I have written many songs together, but we've never written songs in the same room.

On a low-budget film, you don't have all the luxuries.

That's one of the luxuries of being able to do mixtapes, it's that you can do something different or you can do anything you want to do, how you're feeling at the time.

Make music when I want to in whatever style I would like to. That is something that I know that I'm not the only Nightwish member who has that. That's a luxury we can take, and we will.

I would still like to have that luxury, to be able to just sit and draw for hours and hours and hours. In a way, that's what I do as a writer.

Luxury means that you show the way you dress with eccentricity.

My music is a luxury.

The best thing about art is that it is the one luxury in life that can be enjoyed by everyone. And it lasts forever.