Quotes About Creativity

The Auto-Tune makes everybody sound the same and takes away all of the emotion because you're singing through this machine, and of course your taking all of this emotion out of your voice for the most part.

'S.N.L.' has become what it was always trying to make fun of. It's become this big machine. I don't want to be plugged into a machine.

The reason 'Fireball' is my favorite album of that period is that without 'Fireball,' we would never have been able to make 'Machine Head.'

I'm not a hit machine.

You see, we are not machines and we do not have lots of ideas in a drawer.

I have problems with machines which aren't gestural.

When I came up, it was Macho Man and all these other guys, and you had to come up with your own stuff. If you didn't come up with your own stuff, you weren't getting over.

I'm a bit crazy, so sometimes I just get these mad ideas that, on paper, aren't even possible.

I just don't think you can make records easily and have them be great. It's a process. You've got to get really lucky all the time, or you've got to work like mad.

Mad science is my middle name.

I don't understand why people are going mad about the lyrics I write? Do they expect everyone to become Mirza Ghalib?

I'm mad creative for acting.

Where I live, it's better to write in the morning because the night is really, really, really dark, and I do believe you'd go mad if you weren't asleep for most of it.

Until Mad Season, I didn't have that confidence to write songs, and I really got it, playing with these guys. It meant the world to me.

Would Alexander, madman as he was, have been so much a madman, had it not been for Homer?

I can only be the madman that I've been so long.

Writing is a form of licensed madness.

I'm really a classicist at heart - with a bit of madness!

You're on your own with the book. And while you are writing fiction, you're spending all this time with people who don't actually exist, which is just madness.

Yo Gotti had some influence on me for sure. I would say Three 6 Mafia, too.

Yeah, I like Three Six Mafia and stuff like that.

Far From Home was also my idea from a magazine I'd seen.

One of the things I liked about writing for a magazine was a kind of anonymity. When you do books, it's different than magazine pieces because you become a 'figure.'

If you see a look in a magazine that you like, try it.