Quotes About Creativity

I do feel most at home playing live, but the feeling of getting into the studio to see the new songs take shape was really incredible.

There's a bunch of directors that I really admire, and Australian ones as well. It would be nice to do a film at home.

Jordan Ruddes does [have a home studio], but it's all self-contained. I'll be the only guy with a fully built recording studio. So they'll have to come to me.

I find when I'm touring or when I'm traveling, I just enter this other world kind of. It's much easier for me to be creative and be unselfconscious about creating when I'm home.

I live in a very small town and now that I've closed down my studio, I'm working at home.

If I am just home and writing, I become very strange.

I am home because I am a writer, but sometimes, when I'm not productive (productivity: the expectations of capitalism), I feel like a terrible housewife, or a sick person.

All I do is sit at home and play guitar. That's seriously what I do.

I think I feel much more at home in studio.

My wife is my in-home editor and reads everything I write.

Who here wants to be a writer?' I asked. Everyone in the room raised his hand. 'Why the hell aren't you home writing?' I said, and left the stage.

Growing up I always used to shop in Oxfam. I'd find things for 50p and then take them home, cut them up and make them into something new.

I think recording at home feels more organic, and injects some more personality into the music.

All I ever wanted to do is to write stories that people will enjoy and feel at home with.

I always have melodies flowing in my head - whether I'm just at home, at the mall, at a restaurant or wherever. I'm always humming along to the random melodies that form in my head.

I'll see something awful on the street and I'll come home and say to my boyfriend, "I just saw the funniest thing on the street." It's a stance. It's the way I was born, or the way I was damaged.

I think I am most comfortable when I am on stage. I feel free, like I can be or do anything and it feels like home.

I'm always there at home thinking of Wallace and Gromit ideas.

I'm very at home working with mythology.

Sometimes when you're trying to do a record too close to home, you can get really distracted.

If I'm at home on my own and the writing isn't going well, I clean my house. And there have been times in the past few years when my house has looked really clean.

I started listening to music when I wrote when I had three sons at home.

I've certainly learned a great deal from my husband, though, and could never have written a book like Liquor without him and the people he introduces me to and the stories he brings home.

I write pretty often. I have a home studio. Music is what I do for fun. I never get tired of it, so to take a break from [TV and movies], I would go make some music.