Quotes About Creativity

I was never restricted. I was never told what to do.

What I saw in the record industry is it's just getting more restricted, more restricted, more restricted to where everyone's trying to figure out what kind of song to make to get on the radio: that's researched and where advertisers are telling you what to play.

Art and cinema is not restricted to any language.

I love what I do and I don't allow language to become a restriction.

The more restrictions you have, the easier anything is to write.

Restrictions are difficult to enforce in a world where anybody can make anything.

When you're not the lead, you don't have as many restrictions.

It's nice to have the creative freedom to write about whatever and no longer feeling those restrictions I had when I was 15.

Honestly, playing negative roles is much more fun, because there are no restrictions.

If you're applying for a creative position, don't be afraid to get a little creative on your resume.

I think one thing that's amazing about 'Resurrection' is that we weren't afraid to lay it all out there lyrically.

I'd never worked in fashion or retail. I just needed an undergarment that didn't exist.

I admire artists who are ageing and still retaining their edge.

The day I write a totally happy song... I'll retire.

I wouldn't know how to retire.

I want to be a mom. It's something that when I do have kids, I think I will retire from making music for a while.

I always thought I'd write when I retired - when I turned 65.

I don't know how I'd be retired. I wake up every day with another idea.

Sometimes I think it's the responsibility of the artist to reveal a little more of themselves.

I'm interested in telling a story about a gay man and what he's going through as an artist and as a lonely, single gay man. I want to reveal what I know about loneliness.

I reveal myself in my movies.

People are gonna listen to the music whether or not I reveal myself.

A lot of actors, whatever movie you're working on, you make up a back story just for your own, to work off, even if the audience doesn't have it revealed to them. I think it's important that the audience makes up their own mind.

Sometimes the writing leads to the revelations, not the other way around.