Quotes about "Creativity & Arts"

It's not just music. To me, it's songwriting more than anything. A lot of people say it's expression, but to me, it's more than that. ”

I take conscious breaks for myself 'cause I like to rejuvenate and get my creative juices flowing. I also like to take my time with my creativity; I think it's important. ”

Whether or not your candidate wins, the crucial importance is the integrity of our voting system. You have to engage in the process in order to change it. ”

My introduction to Motown was through The Jackson Five and Michael Jackson. Michael's been my greatest creative inspiration, so that's how I really became familiar with Motown as a whole, and as I got older, I learned far more about the other groups. ”

My No. 1 artistic inspiration in theater is Brian Stokes Mitchell. ”

Interviewing someone is a very proactive process and requires taking a lot of agency into your own hands to get past people's general normal self-preservation mode. ”

Humans of New York' did not result from a flash on inspiration. It grew from five years of experimenting, tinkering, and messing up. ”

I'll make music, whether or not anyone is listening, for the rest of my life. It's a natural form of expression for me, the same way I draw and write and sing. ”

Music is a lot more like solving an intricate puzzle with moments of pure, random creative bliss... whereas painting is much more purely random creative bliss with moments of problem solving. ”

Drawing and visual pursuits were first. Music came and found me in a way. Really, what it's about is creative problem solving, and music is a lot more an expression of that than painting is for me. ”