William James Quotes

An intellectual is a person who's found one thing that's more interesting than sex.

The thing about inspiration is that it takes your mind off everything else.

I was all about my thoughts, my work, my inspiration. I was always in hair.

Write about it by day and dream about it by night.

When you drink coffee, you become very focused, and in fact, the key to creative genius is to be defocused.

One gets into a state of creativity by conscious work.

If you think of a school drawing while you work, your drawing will look like one.

Geniuses never pay attention.

I have always thought that the place where you sleep or the place you share with your partner should be separate from the place where you write. The domestic rituals and details somehow kill the imagination. They kill the demon in me.

I can always be distracted by love, but eventually I get horny for my creativity.

One of the strongest characteristics of genius is the power of lighting its own fire.

First have being in your mind. Make real in your mind then bring that being into reality. The genius is he who sees what is not yet and causes it to come to be.

For a long time, I would write without music, because I thought it was distracting until I appreciated that it actually unlocks a certain unconscious productivity vault in my mind.

I think when you start talking about money, it stops the whole creative process for me.

I think the older I get the more creative I get, I don't have the distractions that I had when I was younger.

I'm very easily distracted unless I have music on. Listening to music while I brainstorm makes me think of scenes that would fit the mood of the music I'm playing.

Dr. Einstein was not successful in school, but he found something in the air from his own imagination and his own brain power, and look what he did.

The writer should never be ashamed of staring. There is nothing that does not require his attention.

I go to bed late. My mind starts going at night - that's when those creative juices begin flowing.

The monotony and solitude of a quiet life stimulates the creative mind.

Since new developments are the products of a creative mind, we must therefore stimulate and encourage that type of mind in every way possible.

Although even when I am being idle I have plenty of food for thought both early and late - thoughts both about and not about art.

When I am writing best, I really am lost in my world. I lose track of the outside world. I have a difficult time balancing between my real world and the artificial world.

Sour Patch, Swedish Fish. I love candy, man. I can't go without candy. And when I'm recording, I always have a TV on with cartoons - on mute, though. When I'm recording, I like to look at the TV now and then and see some crazy, wacky stuff. When you're thinking creative, it just keeps you creative. Everybody got their way of making music.

I do get obsessed with constantly thinking of ideas, all day long, but that's just how it is.