Quotes About Creation

I'm very interested in writing an actual series, that doesn't have too much to do with my music - a world I create that has characters in it. I'm just trying to get there by doing things that I want to do.

Nobody sets out to make a bad record.

When I work on a novel, I usually have one character and a setting in mind.

When I started writing 'Luck in the Shadows,' I just wanted to create an adventure story.

I believe that nothing comes of nothing, even in Shakespeare. I wanted to know where he got the matter he was working with and what he did with that matter.

Shame is something that's man-made.

I want to tell a story and shape it all the way through to the end.

I like shaped things. I like shape in things, and I do overshape things, it's true.

I love my games and I love sharing them with people. It's this amazing incredible thing I get to do with my life, creating ideas and sharing them with people. The problem is, it just hasn't worked.

I started writing books because I couldn't find the books I wanted to read on the shelf.

I like to create a shock moment. I take what not everybody wants and really get people to believe that's me.

A book is not a short-term project. It's essentially your baby, so it takes a lot of work.

I've got to learn how to create shots for others.

Obviously, you hope to make shots. But you can't put too much pressure on yourself to make it, because whether or not they go in, you're creating space everybody else.

I wanted to show people that there's nothing wrong with trying to make something sacred.

Most every book I bring into the world is like birthing a baby; it's a lot of effort!

All of the development I do is with the help of business advisors who are more like my best friends than just business people. They helped me as I created Ipsy back in 2011, which is a beauty community that ships out sampling bags to subscribers.

Baking is my favourite.

Sometimes I feel as if sections of my ballets were done for me - that I didn't do them myself.

I'll get a few words and then go back to the music and then back to words, and play them off each other - and then I'll bring the song to the band.

I think we're a band with a lot of history now so it's nice to come up with something that doesn't have any history at all.

Music is where I started. It's kind of the base of everything.

I know I can get to the basket whenever I want, but I've got to be able to create some plays, like easy plays.

The only way to write Batman, if you get the chance - and I hope everyone out there gets the chance - is to imagine you made him up.