Quotes About Creativity

I have a thing about inane lyrics - the world doesn't need them.

Songs, especially lyrics, have always been really important to me.

All of our lyrics are really personal, and we get a lot of personal letters.

The most common time I write lyrics is the middle of the night.

I like to write lyrics when I feel it, and because of that, I like to keep a log of lyrics all the time.

I get my inspiration for my songs and the lyrics from experiences in my life, but I'm also very inspired by the Beatles and Cyndi Lauper, as I really like their music.

What I really like to do with my music is these concept stories, and I always like to have some life philosophies in the lyrics.

All musicians should write poetry or at least read it if they want to improve their game. Except for people who believe lyrics don't matter.

When you write really good lyrics - and sometimes I did! - they are just a joy to sing.

I really like writing poetry and lyrics because it's one thing where I give up control. I don't feel like I need to be in control of it. I just sort of let it happen, and then I know when it's done. I know when it's finished.

I've always loved lyrics, so I used to listen to Sara Bareilles - more folky, singer-songwritery people.

In some ways, the more that I write songs, the more I feel that telling a story is the most important thing; just being able to close your eyes when you hear some lyrics and go somewhere.

Sometimes you might get inspired by something, write about it, then later that lyrics sounds better on another beat. That's happened a few times. Like 'Dance Wiv Me' - those lyrics didn't start on that beat.

The music is the same if you go all the way back to the first albums I made or the middle or whatever. The thing that's different is the lyrics.

If I don't write a song, I only record it when it's played for me for the first time and I connect to it, am empowered by it, and have a deep connection to the lyrics.

Probably as young as 10 I would take songs and just change the lyrics.

So what comes naturally to me is writing lyrics and writing songs and telling stories.

Personally, I don't want to live with limitations. If there comes a time where I am dying to play Juliet or Macbeth, I want to make those avenues for myself.

I want to be a machine.

In a machine age, dressmaking is one of the last refuges of the human, the personal, the inimitable.

A Rube Goldberg machine is, in its essence, a trial-and-error thing.

When you watch a movie, you don't want to feel like a machine made it. You want to feel a soul.

I'm not a machine that just comes up with records and can give them away easily.

I grew up with an Apple 2E - I had a deep, emotional attachment to that machine - and I loved doodling.