Quotes On Creativity

Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.

You have to be really open to your acting partners and believe in the story.

You know, I have some issues. But I just love to play different characters all the time, and I try not to repeat myself too much.

You have to write 100 songs before you write the first good one.

We're just entertaining people, and it's supposed to be fun.

It's pretty intense writing about my own life, my own struggles.

If you're horrible to me, I'm going to write a song about it, and you won't like it. That's how I operate.

I've never thought about songwriting as a weapon. I've only thought about it as a way to help me get through love and loss and sadness and loneliness and growing up.

I've always felt music is the only way to give an instantaneous moment the feel of slow motion. To romanticise it and glorify it and give it a soundtrack and a rhythm.

I'm not asleep; my mind is alive.

I'm happier when I'm making things more often.

I'm a songwriter. Everything affects me.