Creativity Quotes

"With my music, I'm trying to turn things inside out and find new patterns and ways of revealing them so that people who listen to the music can feel the same way I do." "I just know that I feel better when I'm writing music." "When you're trying to create music, it's all about having a vision." "I want people to feel something when they listen to my music." "I see myself as an innovator and a creative person." "I'm all about self-expression." "Music is the only outlet that I have, really." "You can teach someone to make music, but you can't teach them to be an artist." "The amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to the amount of genius, mental vigor, and courage which it contained." "Writing is a process, a journey into memory and the soul." "All stories interest me, and some haunt me until I end up writing them." "I do music for the love of it, and I live and breathe it" "What is reprehensible is people who... tell you there are limits and that you can't do this or that. These are the people who when you say you can think freely, say it's only thinkable up to a certain point." "Great art shapes the world, and people recognise themselves in it, and find it changed for that moment." "Books choose their authors; the act of creation is not entirely a rational and conscious one." "One of the malfunctions of literary criticism is that it tends to create clothing patterns and then cut these patterns up to create garments. But that’s destroyed the books." "The world isn't fair. That's why I invented Calvinball" "For me, it always goes back to the desire to tell a story, to entertain and to surprise people." "I’m fascinated by the idea of perception, that’s why I love the science fiction genre. It allows you to bend reality." "If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry "