Quotes about Creativity

Everything I write is based on something I've personally experienced, or things that my friends have experienced that I just find horribly entertaining.

I would like to do a musical, if I could find a cool one. A song-and-dance role is closer to me personally than other characters I play.

My greatest joy comes from creativity: from feeling that I have been able to identify a certain aspect of human nature and crystallise a phenomenon in words.

When I started performing, there was no Internet; I didn't really have anything to copy. I kind of had to just make up what I thought burlesque was, based on photographs of Sally Rand or whatever.

I was really nervous working with actors, since I come from a photography background.

I love Instagram and photography.

Sometimes I'll jot a clever turn of phrase down. Sometimes I'll just remember it.

I am so in the past. I'm such a Luddite when it comes to making music. All I can do is write at the piano.

I'm not always the best at picking out what goes together. I always want to be presentable, but more than that, I want to be different. I've never just wanted to follow the crowd. I think that goes back to when I was a boy. If everyone was doing one thing, I'd do something different.

When it comes to creation, I am open. However, I am extremely picky when it comes to who I create with.

I'm interested in painting the most beautifully compelling pictures and images and metaphors and stories and explanations possible that will put Jesus in language for a world that desperately needs to hear it.

I've written six novels and four pieces of nonfiction, so I don't really have a genre these days.