Quotes about Creativity

Photography is a tough life: you can be taken, framed, exposed, shot, captured, and hung all in the same day.

Play the music, not the instrument.

Jubal: he was the father of all such as handle the harp and organ.

No scrap of paper bigger than my smallest punch shall be thrown away.

I like making a piece of string into something I can wear.

You provide the prose poems, I'll provide the war.

When life throws you lemons, make orange juice. It will leave them wondering how the hell you did that.

Real programmers don't work from 9 to 5. If any real programmers are around at 9am it's because they were up all night.

Some authors should be paid by the quantity NOT written.

I was talking to my publisher, Jamie Ceretta, who's one of my closest confidants and allies when I'm working on new music. I feel like I can always count on his judgement because he'll tell me if he doesn't like something. It's sometimes hard to get people to tell you if they don't like something.

I'm always pulling and really feeding off of my inspirations. I think most musicians do.

The first music I heard that made me put away my comic books and make music was original punk.