Quotes About Creativity

We just try to write about things that are close to our hearts. We don't sit around trying to write another 'Free Bird' or 'Sweet Home Alabama.'

When we wrote 'Avenue Q,' we worked hard to create something that could be funny and satirical but also had some surprise moments of heart, moments when the music itself could become a central player and create something sweet and moving.

Just knowing you're putting something out there that could take on a greater life - that's our sweet spot. That's what we try to do.

You can add things to savoury dishes as you cook, but sweet dishes are more challenging.

My sweet spot as a writer and, especially, as an essayist is sub-1500 words.

If I do a portrait, I know what they can take. If somebody's a sweet, shy person, the photographs will be sweet and shy. Of course, you ask people to do something which they might not have done before, but that's the journey, the fun element.

It was amazing to remake and rewrite a song like 'Sweet Like Chocolate.' It feels like a good way to come back.

My dad is one of the sweetest human beings around. He's so patient with people and has so many ideas that he's so much fun to work with.

I've been with Rita Ora in the studio doing a song of hers. She's amazing. She's a sweetheart.

My art should have a lightness and sweetness. Especially since it has heavy and triggering subject matters, I prefer to present it in a way that's palatable and draws people in.

The painter who is familiar with the nature of the sinews, muscles, and tendons, will know very well, in giving movement to a limb, how many and which sinews cause it; and which muscle, by swelling, causes the contraction of that sinew; and which sinews, expanded into the thinnest cartilage, surround and support the said muscle.

Growing up, my imagined life as a musician was something along the lines of me lounging in a Learjet en route to a swelling outdoor amphitheatre on a dazzling summer's eve.

I would find myself in these photo shoots with models and makeup, and I got swept up in it all.

Hard to say an absolute favorite, but some of my favorites are: 'Ryan's Daughter,' 'One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest,' 'The Piano,' Lina Wertmuller's 'Swept Away,' 'Blade Runner.'

Maybe it goes away, but this is the way I've chosen to live: I want to go down or rise up as an artist. I don't want to get swept up in lipstick or whatever the hell.

Interscope Records has always been a heat-seeking missile when it comes to shifts in popular culture, whether inciting them or reacting to them swiftly.

Poems that come swiftly are usually the ones that you keep.

I had somebody say to me once, 'You can't make the kind of music you're making and call yourself a feminist.' The door was slammed on them swiftly after that.

Adult Swim's philosophy is, 'Put it on the air and if it works, great. If it doesn't, take it down and try again.' It's a refreshing way to do TV, I think.

I swim in a sea of words. They flow around me and through me and, by a process that is not fully clear to me, some delicate hidden membrane draws forth the stuff that is the necessary condition of my life.

My girlfriend suggested a bathing suit line, and we are creating it together. We are calling the line Sew Unique Bathing Suits. My girlfriend and I are designing, and there will be some unique pieces. For example, you might find jewelry on some of the suits. Some of the line will just be for show - you do not swim in them.

And I ride horses, swim, do a lot of reading, writing.

I have a cartoon I'm developing with Adult Swim called 'Monster Town U.S.A.,' so I'm busy doing that. Trying to do a coffee-table book of my photography that's been requested of me a couple of times. I'm constantly busy.

Some people might go to the gym and swim laps, but I write songs. Every single day, I write something new and record it.