Quotes about Creativity

Music is nothing but sound, and there is no place for value judgement among various sounds.

I don't think I'll ever be able to fully explain the way that the Velvet Underground's records opened a door in my head. But it has something to do with Lou Reed as a mythic figure: a person who fitted no category, who defied limits and trends and definitions.

Theater is a verb before it is a noun, an act before it is a place.

I get hit up all the time from every verified rapper with 1,000,000 followers like, 'Yo bro! You got the sauce right now. Send me beats!' Naw, that takes everything away from what I do.

Our democracy, our constitutional framework is really a kind of software for harnessing the creativity and political imagination for all of our people. The American democratic system was an early political version of Napster.

There's no point that an album should sound like a watered down version of another album.

There's no point that an album should sound like a watered down version of another album.

The stuff that comes easy takes the most rewriting. And the stuff that comes hard reads the easiest (Writing for the Soul, p. 194).

Behind every great idea is someone saying "It won't work"

I think a playwright must be his own dramaturg. I believe in a theater where the director and the playwright work together to create what they need.

I started being me about the songs, not writing objectively, but subjectively. I think it was Dylan who helped me realize that - not by any discussion or anything, but by hearing his work.

I see no thread running through my work; I simply get on with my life and my painting.