Quotes About Creativity

Money is a resource for me and it is needed to make music.

I feel like a celebrity is someone who sits and takes pictures with people 'cause they love themselves and how they look and how people look at them. But I just want to be regular and respected for my artistry because music doesn't necessarily have a face.

To write a song is one thing, to get it to No.1 is another and to have a respected artist cover it is incredible. It's great to know my songs will be around for a long time.

I don't have a favorite process. My favorite process is the right process for the person I am working with. I can fit in any process as long as the director respects who I am and doesn't try to put me in a situation to get something out of me - if I can give it without that situation.

I think that, for us, the thing that no one can take away from you is that if you make something that they've never heard before, they're gonna respond to that. They may not love it, it may not be their favourite thing, but no one can take different from you.

If you believe in your art, and you love what you do, that energy will go out, and people will respond.

As a director, you never think about how an audience would respond. You can think about that, but you will never change what you're going to do.

I sense people respond more to the honest approach to making music instead of the manufactured approach.

Art has to be able to match life, to respond to the ever-changing forms of the world, to electrify the audience.

At the end of the day, I just like to make the best music that I can make and put it out to the world and see how they respond to it.

I can only do what I do, and if people respond to it, great, and if they don't, that's what that is.

I'm very happy with the response for everything I've done, but, you know, sometimes you get things like, 'Oh, 'Spaced' Series One wasn't as good as 'Spaced' Series Two.' Or 'Shaun of the Dead' is not as good as 'Spaced,' or, 'Hot Fuzz' is not as good as 'Shaun.' Or, now, 'The World's End' is not 'Shaun of the Dead.'

If I don't see an emotional response to a dress, then I think something's wrong.

I work in response to the limitations of any situation and in relationship to what's possible.

I think you write the film that you want to see, and you try and do it honestly, and you can't control people's responses, really.

I didn't want to play these people any more songs and have them say that they weren't good enough. So my response was to just not be able to write anymore. I know that's not the healthiest of responses.

Sometimes I make things that people have very strong responses to. Whether that's art, I don't know. That's one of those words that doesn't mean anything. It's why I don't just use words.

When I'm writing a story, which takes me a year or more, I can feel my character living with me - they're responding to whatever funny, familial, or social situation I'm in, and I think about their responses constantly.

When I stop working the rest of the day is posthumous. I'm only really alive when I'm writing.

I never ever thought about having my own restaurant.

I played the guitar and thought that was what I was going to do as a career. I still record music that is played in my restaurants.

When you start reading a piece together, you get a sense of someone's basic philosophy of music without saying a word. You realize the other person's approach, how they express themselves, the kind of restraint they show, all those things.

I don't like to restrict my style. I believe I am a student in the world of design. I love all kinds of design elements and more than that, I love to mix them up.

I'm not going to restrict myself as an artist.