Quotes About Creativity

From a very young age, I was singing and acting and performing for my family.

Recording is best used as a pretty good reason to hang with the family of friends globally scattered.

Growing up with three brothers and three sisters, I was the storyteller of the family... what my mother called 'The Liar.'

My family were all musicians. I really wasn't interested in school or anything.

I come from a family of lawyers. I was expected to be a professional of some sort, not an artist. I was never uplifted for my art.

I grew up in a musical family, but nobody was a professional musician.

At 13 you're not even thinking about that, you know? I was just playing for fun and uploading videos on YouTube because I wanted to show my family.

My experiences always influence my writing, but usually only on an emotional level. I have experienced death of a family member and it's easy to dredge up those feelings and get them on the page.

It often is a terrible insult to some families if one of the kids turns out to be an artist and that's one way to really shake up the family if you haven't got nerve enough to turn into a homosexual.

The dramatist's function is (1) to earn a living for his family and himself and (2) to try to entertain people for a few hours.

Never write a book and let it sit on a shelf.

Easter is an arts and crafts moment where your whole family and friends can get involved.

The only artists for whom I would make way are - children. For me the paintings of children belong side by side with the works of the masters.

Adults are always asking little kids what they want to be when they grow up - 'cause they're looking for ideas.

My childhood was great because my family has an amazing sense of humor, and it was just all making videos and jokes and doing skits and things.

I don't want to be romantic, but one of the most important things is to have happy buildings... it's like having a family with a lot of children.

To encourage my little kid to eat I'd sometimes say: "Just pretend it's sand."

A child prodigy is one with highly imaginative parents.

I was raised in a large family. The first reason for my travel was to get away from my family. I knew that I wanted to be a writer, but I didn't want people to ask me questions about it.

If a poet has a dream, it is not of becoming famous, but of being believed.

I've enjoyed being a famous writer-except that every once in a while you have to write something.

That's what music is: entertainment. The more you put yourself into it, the more of you comes out in it.

After becoming famous once again - a 1976 song, "Hurricane," even marked a return to protest songwriting - [Bob] Dylan got addicted to drugs, found Jesus, left Jesus, and put out a lot of swill.

I'm not interested in being famous or anything, but I'm definitely interested in expressing emotions, and acting and filmmaking can be great outlets for that. Filmmaking is an incredible art.