Quotes About Creativity

On the key to a successful Twitter account: Write the things that you think are funny and that's what's gonna click with people.

It's just thinking of funny things that will amuse us and entertain us and we'll come and do it.

It's a funny semantic turn - when someone paints a landscape, no one says they "borrowed" it, only that they painted it.

It's funny how you can struggle with one piece and write a better one in a minute. When things come easy, it means it's good.

To be creative and spontaneous, you have to live with imperfection.

I'm just surrounded by awesome funny folks and really creative people. I'm learning, every day. There's not a day that I step on set that I don't have fun. It's a pretty good deal.

You can mythologize Steve Jobs, but really in the end, he was a kid from the Valley, with his funny little friends, and they made something. That's all he was.

I think my instinct creatively is to make things that are very funny and happy and silly. And in this moment where the world is very scary, I feel like my role is to make people laugh really hard.

I don't know when I'm writing dark. I don't know when I'm writing funny or even heartbreaking. I'm always just trying to write it true.

Children have an easier ability to tap into the surreal than adults do, in a funny kind of way.

I came up with a good idea... see-through skin.

While we were working, we were writing about a tall girl and a short girl, which we thought was funny, because Alison's [McGhee] tall and I'm short.

Man who stands on toilet, gets high on pot!

Doing funny scary is something that is rarely good and rarely works, and it's also something that's incredibly hard to market.

It's funny how making odd noises can get you into strange situations sometimes.

What's the trick to writing a genuinely funny comedy? The trick is therapy. Take notes.

Writing a memoir isn't particularly interesting to me. I'm not like Ellen [DeGeneres], where I can write, 'Water bottles--they're crazy!' and it's funny.

I had funny memories, too, but the music was more important to me than anything else.

All my best girlfriends play guitar now, which is kind of a funny world to live in.

You wouldn't know how to perform a sketch that you don't find funny. You just couldn't do it.

There's been so many different types of musicals and it's a funny genre because there's a fine line between clever and stupid. It really takes a genius to know how to do it.

When I was in college, I had a friend who was an artist and her theory was that all the best art in the world is funny/sad. That was her favorite genre. Funny/sad are probably my two favorite tones.

I don't make fun of my characters. I just like to laugh and I think people are funny and the world is funny.

Somebody, my daughter or my wife, gave me a music box for Christmas. It plays "My Funny Valentine" on celeste, you know? So I had Bobby [Irving] just play "Jean Pierre" with the changes on celeste.