Quotes About Creativity

The parts I've got to create are a little bit different to a lot of guys my age.

I want to play male characters; I want to be Ranbir Kapoor of 'Rockstar.' Those are exciting parts.

I won't get into it any more than to say that there are parts of me in all the songs that I write.

There are parts of me that I keep secret even from myself. I have demons and I'd love to be able to healthily look at the demons and still be a wonderful actor and not feel I need them to create.

I now want to be playing parts more interesting to me and more exciting to me.

I actually feel that the different kinds of stories come out of different parts of my brain.

And I feel that we in our society should not be held by any such myth; that we should do everything we can to gain a delight and joy in our society with all the available parts of the palette.

I really worked to try and be creative enough on the guitar parts so those who aren't real educated would know that there was some difficulty in doing it.

That was when Neil discovered Jack Nietzsche. They went off and pretty much came up with that by themselves, but I thought it was a great song, and I was more than happy to do my harmony parts on it.

I like songs that have lots of different parts in them, an intro, an outro and a bridge.

Those are my favorite kind of parts to do, just being a goofball and seeing how far you can go with something until you're just way out of line.

Sigur Ros make beautiful music. Bloc Party are fantastic and exciting and innovative.

Don't get me wrong, I like to have a good party sometimes. But I really like having my friends over, cooking for them, dancing and then doing some painting.

When I composed a song on Bhagat Singh, it flopped. But my other songs about partying and all that are superhits!

When you're trying to pass on the best of the stuff you're culling to what should be a hungry culture but you have it diminished... that's kind of disappointing.

So we got there at 6 a.m. We'd be shooting by 6:45. We wouldn't break for lunch, we'd just pass food around all day. And we would just rock and roll 'til 4, then Matty Libatique, our great cinematographer, would say, 'Outta light, guys' - and that was it.

If you have the opportunity for your art to meet activism, you shouldn't pass that up when it comes your way.

When you call someone and ask them to do something they've never done before, in different mediums I think they would be inclined to pass because they're afraid of the risk. But the creative people who populate the theater world love the challenge of new things.

Writers - all writers, even screenwriters - like to make their mark. I don't think many screenwriters can write. They pass as writers.

If a director brings a guy to their movie who does improv, they've got to let him do what he does - otherwise it's like bringing Michael Jordan to your basketball team and telling him to just pass the ball and don't shoot.

When I first started writing, I used to listen to music all the time because it would make time pass more quickly. And then I started to wonder if the music wasn't affecting my writing in ways that I didn't necessarily intend.

I sometimes think I cannot write another passage about a disappointing meal ever again, because I've done it so many times.

For novelists or musicians, if they really want to create something, they need to go downstairs and find a passage to get into the second basement. What I want to do is go down there, but still stay sane.

Oh, he's magic. Faulkner has opened passages in my brain. You do things you'd never expect.