Quotes about Creativity

One of my goals in making music is to make the world seem bigger, and life seem larger.

I've been listening to a lot of music by Arca.

Glenn Slater is my lyricist who, of the new young lyricists coming along, is the most exciting, I think.

I consider myself a lyrics guy.

To write is to feel the dance of your soul swirling in a dream that drips imagination onto paper.

Every creative person, and I think probably every other person, faces resistance when they are trying to create something good...The harder the resistance, the more important the task must be.

So I wrote. I wrote as though God thought my voice mattered. I wrote because I believed a human story was beautiful, no matter how small the human was. I wrote because I didn't make myself, God did. And I wrote like he'd invited me to share my true "self" with the world.

The downside of being a writer is you get plenty of time to overthink your life.

Good stories don't happen by accident, I learned. They are planned.

You put something on the page," he said. "Your life is a blank page. You write on it".

Like chords of music in the sense that you can use them to create an infinite variety of narrative expression.

It's true of Jamie. But I want it to be true of you too. And for that matter, me. I don't believe we are accidents in the world, and I don't believe we were supposed to be actors either. I think we were supposed to be ourselves and we were meant as a miracle. Jamie, Be encouraged. Your heart is writing a poem on the world and it's being turned into a thousand songs.