Quotes About Creativity

My job as an entertainer is to take you some place else. I love exploring different genres of music to please my fans.

I don't ever write with a particular audience in mind. I just write books that please me.

It's good to please the network, but you really just have to tell the stories you want to tell, and if you try to please other people, it ends up starting to water stuff down. Those decisions we have to make are hard, but we usually just err on the side of 'What would we want to see?'

I used to read about people who'd say, 'I dream my books, and then I write them down.' And I was like, 'Oh, please.'

All any artist can do is please themselves.

I think the moment you start trying to please a fan base is when you start going downhill. I'm going to always, always write about what I want, even if it doesn't necessarily cater to most of them.

I hope that what you take away from my album is not just the music - which I did want to be fun, and I did want it to be about individuality, but please also take away from it that there's no dream that's too big.

Please don't compare me with Taher Shah. He is a joker, while I am an artiste - I am a model and an actress. Taher Shah comes, makes people laugh, and goes away. I work with a lot of honesty.

I am writing to please myself, though there is a feeling in some place in my head that this may be publishable. I haven't been writing for nothing.

I know I'm not gonna please everybody when I make a record. I don't let that affect any of my decisions.

I write music to please myself. Hopefully the director's enjoying it too.

I try to forget about the expectation that's out there and the audience listening for the next thing so that I'm not trying to please them. I've spent a huge amount of time not communicating with those folks and denying that they exist.

You write to please yourself, you write to move yourself, to engage yourself in the asking of questions that are important to you.

Oh my gosh! I can't tell you the number of times people have put autotune on my voice, and I'm like, 'Please take it off!' You don't even sound human; it makes you sound like a robot!

I mean, if I was living to please people, I'd have never been in a band at all. I wouldn't have anything awesome around. I'd just be bored.

You can't write something to please someone.

When I make movies, I don't ever go out there to please anyone other than myself. I never try to make a film for the masses. I just try to tell my story.

I have respect for anyone who's going to go out and make a movie for a small budget and turn it into a phenomenon. God bless you. Please keep making movies. That's great. But it's not what entertains me.

As writers, we only aim to please. Or we aimed to please as children, which is why we became writers.

Writing a novel is like knocking on a door that will never open. You are so desperate to get in, you will say or do anything. You feel: please take my novel.

I try not to read reviews. It's hard not to hear what the critics are saying, but as an actor, I try not to let it in and to just give the best performances I can. At the end of the day, if you're trying to please the critics, you're missing what's really important: being creative and having fun.

With my designs and my ideas, I want to please myself first.

I have never written for an audience. On the other hand I do not write merely to please myself.

Every time I finish a book, I say to an imaginary god that I do not believe in, 'Please let me live to write another one.'