Quotes About Creativity

All that I've played, all that I've sung, I couldn't have done any other way.

Our mothers and grandmothers ... moving to music not yet written.

There's such a wealth of great music, clothes or whatever. There is so much great stuff out there, that why would you not still be interested if you've grown up in that kind of culture?

I have this massive love for the whole culture of pop music... It's my fascination, my on-going passion.

When we separate music from life we get is art.

Into the Music was about the first album where I felt, 'I'm starting here'...the Wavelength thing, I didn't really feel that was me.

I hate it when bands change between records. They're thinking before they make music.

There's an inherent thing in me where, if things are going too smooth, I'll sabotage the hell out of them, just to make the music more of a sanctuary.

I don't feel bound by the ebbs and flows of musical trends, or what's happening with new music in general.

Extreme volume in music very often disguises a lack of actually important content.

A 'mistake' is beside the point, for once anything happens it authentically is.

Because I've been making music and releasing it for so long, I've got that production-line thing in my brain: I can't do anything new until the last one's out.

I didn't think anything we did was spectacular. I remember we thought, 'Let's just write some scary music.'

I always loved music and I always loved to perform, and that's my favorite part, to perform; my favorite part is not the studio, I can't stand the studio.

I have no doubt that there are great people about though... the thing of it is, nothing to this day moves me like classical music (Debussy, Vaughn Williams).

You may dream freely when you listen to music as well as when you look at painting. When you read a book you are the slave of the author's mind.

When I started working on electronic music, that was after the rave period. I haven't even seen that part of it that much.

But what I think my emphasis is, is on the fact that I like music a lot.

I love art and music more than I love fashion, to be honest.

Music is always my great escape... I get to be that wild child and do whatever the hell I want on stage.

I actually think in music, learning technical stuff doesn't matter. You can be as technical as you like, but still sound awful.

One has to commit their life to music and not expect to get famous or rich doing it.

Arranging is the way I put my stamp on my music as much as my guitar playing.

I've been singing since I was two. Music was my first passion and I love writing, singing, creating and being creative.