Jack Antonoff Quotes

But I'm blessed to work with great people. I collaborate with brilliant stylists both here and in Paris. I work with a great design team. I really allow everyone to bring their ideas. I almost rely on them to inspire me.

When you have a situation where you're hanging out with 20 or 30 other artists, then there's insane amounts of creativity in the room.

People sort of imagine Chris Morris and me sitting somewhere dark, with dripping taps and chilling background music. In fact, we like to sit on his roof in the sunshine - and there's an endless amount of just sitting there, going, 'So, erm, er, what shall we do?'

I don't know if it'd be any time soon but I'd really like to work on a collaboration with somebody - I always have ideas for stuff like that.

Inspiration arrives as a packet of material to be delivered.

I hardly ever go into the studio with a work complete in my head. It emerges from communal activity.

To them though, not to us, we were just a catalyst for their imagination.

Creation is a drug I can't do without.

I would find myself laughing and wondering where these ideas came from. You can call it imagination, I suppose. But I was grateful for wherever they came from.

There are times when the writers ask us to improvise. Sometimes the animators are inspired by what you do, and sometimes you are inspired by what the animators do.

Muse. Mu-se. It's a great thing, for someone to feel that they can draw inspiration from you. And I don't think it's necessarily a man 'taking' from a woman. It can go both ways, both can stimulate, excite.

Artists thrive off each other, and when you see other people doing cool stuff, it inspires you to do cool stuff.

The seed of an idea laying dormant in an old sketchbook is fed the missing ingredient from a new experience. Trying to share some of these experiences, some of the wonders, is one of the reasons why I do books.

It's fun and super exciting to see how other people work, how other people write music, and how other people put things together. To me, it's an endless learning process, and I love doing it because everybody works so completely differently.

To me, the more dialogue amongst creative types, the better. It keeps people on their toes, and competition is healthy.

I think if you speak to any creative person, there's something so powerful - so intoxicating, if you will - about discovering another voice, another instrument, another way of looking at things, another way of perceiving things.

Sometimes a creative environment affects what happens within it.

It is important for the creative juices to find an outlet, otherwise they stagnate.

I think it's healthy that people that work in a creative field look for inspiration in a different creative field.

I do love being amongst creative people and facilitating that and being inspired by people. I get very bored with just competence and require inspiration all around me.

I'd love to get in a room with Kanye at some point, have a conversation, and see if something cooks up.

The different variables involved in anything creative, really, are massive. When it comes together, it just clicks, I suppose.

The writers are so smart, I can only imagine. I would love to be in that room. I love the creative process.

Since age seven, I've been composing and have never stopped composing, yet, the creative process is as elusive to me as it has ever been.

From an artist's point of view, I always want to work with the writers I admire.