Quotes About Creation

I like working with other people but I'm not a songwriter, I'm a producer.

I was the Specials' founder, main songwriter and keyboard player.

When I became a songwriter, it was out of some sort of desperation. I needed to create something. I had to latch on to something, and the guitar was what I grabbed.

Creating something beautiful out of pain helps ease the pain. So, that's kind of how I got to songwriting - quite honestly out of desperation.

For the most part, the real work is done in the songwriting stage and recording; the next step is presenting to people.

My songwriting, when I'm writing, is nothing like it is in its finished form - but you have to start somewhere.

Songwriting is a very mysterious process. It feels like creating something from nothing. It's something I don't feel like I really control.

There's this existential argument that comes in, at some point, when you're over-thinking the songwriting process. There's no guarantee that the more time you spend or the more you concentrate on certain aspects that that's going to produce a better result, especially in the arts.

Sorrow lies like a heartbeat behind everything I have written.

Each record is sort of like a brand new baby, where it's your favorite thing at that moment in time.

I am the sort of player that likes to create goals. I think a lot of my team-mates know me as a player who is not selfish.

When you make a painting, even abstract, there is always a sort of necessary filling-in.

We must draw on our early roots and remind people why the Labour party was created and who it sought to represent. We have never been a sectional party promoting self-interest, but instead a force for engaging self-reliance and self-determination.

What is Art? It is the response of man's creative soul to the call of the Real.

The '70s and '80s were just the period during which the best soul music was created and the best records were done.

It is clear that rituals and sacrifices can bring people together, and it may well be that a group that does such things has an advantage over one that does not. But it is not clear why a religion has to be involved. Why are gods, souls, an afterlife, miracles, divine creation of the universe, and so on brought in?

'Dark Souls' is my life's work; everything I came up with for 'Dark Souls III' is based on my personal preferences.

I don't think it'd be the right choice to continue indefinitely creating 'Souls' and 'Bloodborne' games.

I believe that 'Dark Souls III' must be developed as its own individual series.

In the beginning, there was silence. And out of the silence came the sound. The sound is not here.

Honestly, the way I make music, you know - it's like, I don't want to sound cocky or anything, but I try my best to make time with music that doesn't have an expiration date.

I like to create a sound and then leave it behind.

I like that kind of classic-type sound. A lot of my favorite albums were tracked live, with a four-piece band. I love the way those albums sound, but I want to make records that sound like that in the way I like to make stuff.

For me it's always contingent on getting a sound-the sound always suggests what kind of melody it should be. So it's always sound first and then the line afterwards.