Quotes about Creativity

Traditionally, the role of the bass player was just to keep things simple and solid, so it's really a special thing when you can get a player that can actually bring in a lot of presence and also a visual presence, too.

The key thing if you're a writer is to visualize the scene and convey it to the penciller and turn the penciller loose.

Armando Iannucci is one of my heroes. As I was growing up, he was probably the most influential comic voice that I had.

Getting into the voice-over booth, there are no cameras and no inhibitions.

I never try to give a message in my books. It's about living with characters long enough to hear their voices and let them tell me the story. Sometimes I would love to have a happy ending, and it doesn't happen because the character or the story leads me in another direction.

Basically, I listen to voices. If they write good songs and they can sing, I'll probably like it.

You have to have more people who don't look like you in the writers room. I try to have some people who don't look like me in my writers room. I think it's important to have a group of voices, of people who can dissent.

I loved the seventies.

My sexuality is part of my music, part of my identity.

I just like showing people - and this might be at the root of everything that I've done - that I don't want to be looked at as a baseball robot.

My music is very diversified. I'll have a rock song then I'll do a ballad.

You just try to be true to your idea of what is funny and what is also interesting.