Quotes About Creativity

Everything I do comes from the clubs. If I lose that, I'm done.

If people would've heard what we were doing back in the clubs in the late '90s, they would be really shocked to find out how country our sound really was back then.

There aren't very many clubs. There's no place for people to develop and play.

I'm not very good at writing songs when I have a lot of clutter in my mind.

The coaches are there to bounce ideas off and stuff, but at the end of the day, they let us be us. We make our match, and we do 'us', you know what I mean?

I think the most effective coaching for youth is to encourage them to try things, to be unique and be different.

When you just coast through work and don't feel inspired, I feel you are lying to yourself.

Could Yosef be considered a Man Repeller even though he's a man? I'd love to get my hands on that techni-colored dream coat! Feels very Matthew Williamson to me.

People used to think we just faked all that stuff... it was all written, rehearsed. The fact that it looks as cobbled together as it does is just that we weren't very good.

I was making Molotov cocktails long before I knew the name for them.

Many days I don't write any code at all, and some days I spend all day writing code.

You shouldn't restrict peoples' freedom on what they can and cannot do with code.

If people want to code, and they want to be entrepreneurs, there's opportunities for them to do that.

As technologists, we all write code.

On Common Culture, you'll find coffee, clothing, and compilations. So many C's!

I drink coffee. Without coffee, I probably couldn't write.

Without coffee, nothing gets written. Period.

I'm such an antsy type of person. I can't write in a room without other people around. I write in coffee shops.

I tend to work in coffee shops. I need to get out of the house, and, well, I need the coffee.

I write in public libraries and sometimes coffee shops. I can't write at home and gave up trying long ago. I need activity around me that I'm forced to block out. It helps me focus.

I find it really hard to say anything coherent or interesting about the work I do.

Sometimes, I want to make a record that's so schizophrenic and so all over the place, and then other times, I want to make a record that's very coherent and very short and together.

I write songs; I record them. When I get enough, and it seems like a coherent piece, I call it an album.

I would have never thought to put cello and beatboxing together. But I did, and it was extremely hard work to make it cohesive and musical, but it worked.