Quotes About Creation

I find that easier to accept than this all happened out of nothing.

It's what makes me the happiest - to make beautiful things for the people I love, and to fill my home with love and laughter and music and food and people.

You can never tell when an artist really will take up someone's work and work with it happily.

I personally have a hard time with a lot of the creation stories that revolve around the creator being a white man. It seems very limiting to me. So God to me is... so limitless and magical and loving and beautiful.

I think that's one of the hardest parts as an artist, and creating a career, is the song is what is gonna lead you there. So it's hard to find great songs.

The hardest part is developing the idea, and that can take years.

'Super Mario Maker' clearly is going to drive hardware. There are consumers who have always wanted to make their levels of Mario games. So that game will really speak to those consumers.

With Harley, you build it, then you've got to take it apart.

I was obsessed with harmonies and how to put songs together in lush soundscapes. But I don't know what it was all about, really.

I don't think I am avant-garde. I made a lot of creations and created harmony with my fabrics, but I was not like Balenciaga, for example, although he was, of course, a great inspiration.

Harry Cohn did not make me. But I also feel that I probably didn't make me, either. I think it was a combination. I think that's what made it work.

I was at Harvard when Mark Zuckerberg created Facebook, and I begged him not to do it.

Iowa,' for me, I hated doing that album - it wasn't a good experience for me.

I usually destroy unreleased material. It has a way of coming back to haunt you.

When you're making an album, it's kind of like having a baby. You have to really put everything into it.

Completing a book, it's a little like having a baby.

I want to make words out of life. That's bigger than me. That's as big a creative force as - bigger than, for me, even having children. That felt more accidental - wonderful, but accidental.

I'm having fun creating what I'm creating.

I got into this little habit of architecture and building. I designed a house in Colorado and one in Hawaii. The idea is supposed to be build and sell - but then I can never bring myself to sell them.

A character who is thought-out is not born, he or she is contrived. A born character is round, a thought-out character is flat.

I believe that if you can see it in your head, exactly the way it's going to be, then that's how it's going to be.

There's a lot about the character. It doesn't always happen, but there are some characters you really create a relationship with, almost as if they were your friend. And you never get into their heads again or think like them.

What has always been at the heart of film making was the value of a script. It was really the writer who could make or break a film. But as we all know, the writer has always been at the bottom of the creative heap.

I wanted to make something that I wanted to hear that I wasn't hearing.