Quotes About Creativity

I was the only kid reading guitar magazines at the back of the classroom.

An actor is like a piece of clay: you just keep moulding me. Even people who work with you every day want to put you in a little box.

I can't write if someone else is in the house, not even the cleaning woman.

If I get writer's block - this is going to sound funny - I take a shower. Something about the water feels like I'm cleaning my brain as well as my body.

Cleanliness is the scourge of art.

And every friend I've got has been writing Mars stories. It was pretty clear I'd never catch up.

The spirit can assert itself only through the medium of clear form.

I want to make films without a single clear message, and films that are as close as possible to what it feels like to be alive. At least to me.

You could make a film out of just about anything so long as there is a clear vision about the story.

I think my music has connected with the audience because I always have a clear vision about my songs.

I would still encourage somebody, if they wanted to make a movie, to just go take a movie camera. That's clearly been shown to work.

I love Simone Rocha. I just think she's really clever.

I love clever lyrics.

People like abstract art because it makes them feel clever.

I love lyrics that are not too clever.

I can sit and write clever things, but that never quite works as well as when I'm just chatting about stupid things in the moment.

What Einstein was able to do was - to use a cliche - think out of the box.

I like to just make flex music. So when I do make emotional music, it's hard for me, because I feel like I'm cliche. But I guess cliche is the best thing sometimes, because it's real.

A Schiaparelli woman is not about cliche.

I always just wanted to write a love song to my wife that wasn't cliche.

This is a cliche, but in fiction, I feel it is easier for me to get to some sort of truth, some kind of more honest writing.

This sounds like a cliche, but I always wanted to write. After college, I did some writing and realized very quickly that it's hard to make a living as a writer. At that point, I was more interested in fiction writing.

I like a cliche if it's sort of turned on its head.

I loved fashion, ever since I was a little girl, which I know sounds cliche, but it is true.