Quotes About Art

Inspiration comes from everywhere. Obviously, my lyrics are what I most care about in the moment and what I feel like I need to say.

I've found lyrics in songs that always center me.

Sometimes, I feel like my lyrics meander a little bit, and our songs are so big I need to write more words than are necessary.

I have a thing about inane lyrics - the world doesn't need them.

Songs, especially lyrics, have always been really important to me.

All of our lyrics are really personal, and we get a lot of personal letters.

I like to write lyrics when I feel it, and because of that, I like to keep a log of lyrics all the time.

When you write really good lyrics - and sometimes I did! - they are just a joy to sing.

I only like songs with strong lyrics.

I want to be a machine.

When you watch a movie, you don't want to feel like a machine made it. You want to feel a soul.

I have problems with machines which aren't gestural.

I prefer a great novel, but many novels come with a bunch of novel-y writerliness that feels sort of macho to me, so I do end up reading lots of shorter things.

I'm not mad at digital media at all; I just see the importance and beauty of physical media.

Would Alexander, madman as he was, have been so much a madman, had it not been for Homer?

Writing is a form of licensed madness.

Yeah, I like Three Six Mafia and stuff like that.

What I'm doing is art - it's low-brow art but there's a magic in that.

When a writer makes something, it's theirs forever. That is the magic for me.

I don't sit around with other actors and talk about the pain and the magic of acting.

Art gives us an opportunity to not have to leave or go somewhere or do something to experience the magic in our lives. It actually gets us to sit back and be where we are and recognize we're already magical.

I'm doing everything I can to take the magician out of the equation of magic.

There is no magic. There are only magicians.

Working with actors who are directors is magnificent. Because they understand the art form intimately, and they know exactly how everything works.