Quotes about Creativity

Human Salvation lies in the hands of the creatively maladjusted.

I saw an angel in the block of marble and I just chiseled 'til I set him free.

Every production of genius must be the production of enthusiasm.

The true object of human life is play.

Life is a romantic business, but you have to make the romance.

I love Tim Minchin, Bill Bailey, and Hans Teeuwen, and I'm trying to synthesise elements of theatre into my show a little bit more.

I'm a composer, and therefore I know when I've written a good tune. When you've written a good song is when you know that the lyric is completely coalesced with the song.

Know, thou, that the lines that live are turned out of a furrowed brow.

Artists should be free to create what we want. I believe there's a special value in work that is a reflection of oneself as opposed to interpretation. When I see a film or a TV show about black people not written by someone who's black, it's an interpretation of that life.

Basically, I don't like to tweet stuff about my life. I only like to tweet jokes.

We'd lie on the floor, turn the lights out, put two speakers on either side of our ears, and try to blow our minds with music. I know that I want to make a record that does that yet a record that, if it was played on the radio at twelve in the afternoon, the guy making the wall - the guy cleaning the motorway - he's got a melody to hang on.

I was a freelancer all through my twenties. I did about one story a month and I wanted to write fiction, so the stories that I would do were precursors to 'Sex and the City.'