Quotes About Creativity

I remember making up songs in my head.

The whole idea of spellbinding, of being an entertainer, being the center of the stage, making up words - that let me know that writing is nice.

I was always really creative and making up stuff.

I view myself as a male artist.

Most of the time throughout my day I like to keep it light. Go to the mall or drop by a friend's house, go talk with my family. And then after that it's studio. Studio is kind of a process. It's like an all day thing.

I wanted to make films, but the films being made in the 1990s were not my kind. I couldn't break in, and even if I did manage to get a foothold, I didn't know what I would make.

When you keep things responsible and manageable, you can make some interesting movies that you maybe couldn't make otherwise.

I've been in an artist position. I've been in a management position.

Any artist manages his own business along with his manager. Every band should.

Managing yourself, writing and performing your own music can teach you a lot.

I think an artist who has it in their heart to do or say something, they'll say it. It's not something that's mandatory, but it will come out.

I'm just a manga artist, so I can't stand being scrutinized.

There are loads of novels that I really love, like Haruki Murakami's books, and when I read them, I do think about how they would work as an anime. But I do believe that those are great books because they work best as novels, or great manga work best in that form.

I work at a high school, and we have an anime and manga club.

My house is like a manga library in many ways, and it's great because I get to call it research.

Being in this band is like being in high school all over again. We're like a bunch of little maniacs.

You have to fight to get your show not only on the air but then to keep it what it is and make sure that it doesn't get manipulated into something else.

I lived at the greatest time in the history of mankind to be a musician.

With any book, I try to find where the manner of the making of the book is appropriate to the matter of the subject.

Literature is a house with many mansions.

The film-school mantra is that if you don't tell your own stories, nobody will.

A manuscript under way always gave me something to do; only while enduring the aimlessness between books was I truly glum.

I consciously did not want to put a sub-Mr. Bungle band on the map. I don't think the world needs that.

Over the years, El Perro del Mar became this artist that, every record that came out, I just loved it.