Quotes About Creativity

In the design process, there's a need to be culturally comprehensive.

I won't change myself and compromise myself, but I will make my music to be in the conversation with everyone else's.

As long as I don't have to compromise my art, that's the most important thing. It doesn't matter if I'm famous or not, it's all about the music.

No book includes the entire world. It's limited. And so it doesn't seem like an aesthetic compromise to have to do that. There's so much other material to write about.

You can't compromise to keep the film in budget.

There's no compromise to me in what I'm doing. I'm trying to make songs that I love and make them feel a certain way and go to certain places. It just so happens that a lot of 13-year-old girls like that.

I got to Brighton in the late 90s and discovered samplers. Suddenly, I could be my own band with a guitar and sampler, getting my drums in charity shop records. It was better than bashing around in someone's basement, trying to compromise ideas.

I don't think one can write from a compromised moral position.

What compromises women - babies, domesticity, mediocrity - compromises writing even more.

What writer wants to make compromises with story? Story is the only reason you're in it.

There's a lot of compromises, but that's what a great record should be, really.

I really believe in not compromising your art. I feel like I've never compromised my art.

My compulsion is to create things.

Writing isn't a job so much as a compulsion. I've been writing since I was very young because for some strange reason, I must write, and also because when I write, I feel more alive and closer to the world than when I'm not writing.

My identity is based around being a writer. I can't not write. It's a compulsion.

No director wants to make films with stars. It is a compulsion for them.

I am a compulsive writer.

There's nothing I'd rather do than sort of, you know, sit at my computer and rhyme.

I do not go down and sit in front of the computer and make myself write; that's not my style.

I don't sit down in front of my computer screen and think, 'Right. Today I shall begin a story set in this or that period of history.' I just get ideas from the world around me.

You know when you're writing, and it's just you and the computer screen, and you never think that anyone is ever going to read it... you're able to say private things when you're writing.

I can write anywhere. But I don't use a computer, and I could never write on a laptop. I hate the sound of computers; it's too dull, like it's not doing anything for you.

You can sit in a room and create anything you want on a laptop. That's why the real con men are gone.

The name 'con artist' really does capture it. They're artists, and I have admiration for all artists.