Quotes about Creativity

The concept of even having fans is still kind of weird to me. I really just feel like a filmmaker that is only just finding my foot in and is beginning to participate in Hollywood and making films. So the idea of any kind of fandom or people that are waiting for something that I may release is very distant in my mind.

When I taught art, I was always asked, 'How do you know you're an artist? What makes you an artist?' And to me, it's like breathing. You don't question if you breathe; you have to breathe. So if you wake up in the morning, and you have to realize an idea, and there's another idea, and another, maybe you are really an artist.

Songwriting is hard - it's so easy to fall into the same traps. It's not like I wake up and songs flow out of me.

Songwriting is hard - it's so easy to fall into the same traps. It's not like I wake up and songs flow out of me.

But for a few phrases from his letters and an odd line or two of his verse, the poet walks gagged through his own biography.

Of all the songs we played, 'Statesboro Blues' was the most ripped-off.

New York is more where art is bought than where art is made.

I have always tried with my shows - win, lose, or draw - to take the boundaries of music as far as I can.

Every year, I push myself to do something different - and push the boundaries a little bit more.

I'm going to try to not let anyone put me in a box, and that certainly applies to the things I do outside of acting.

The bravest artists I've ever known have always been graf artists. Risking your life and your freedom is no joke.

Kristin Wiig I think is brilliant.