Edward Carey Quotes

I think as an artist or a writer it's OK to want to control your own work.

Artists need support, time and money to develop their ideas, and if people rip stuff off, you don't have to be that brilliant to figure out that you're ultimately going to affect the end product.

A lot of artists are much more concerned about how their work is used and how it's disseminated. That, to artists, is as important as the money, for some people.

That's what's great about the arts. Everything inspires you, and you get a chance to grow from watching other people and how they do their work.

I believe in creative control. No matter what anyone makes, they should have control over it.

The more I grow as an artist, the more I think I become like my father as an artist. The more I diversify, the more I become like my father, which is true to who he was.

A lot of my business is about protecting creativity.

I'm rather kind of old school, thinking that when an artist does his work, it's no longer his... I just see what people make of it.

I was raised around a lot of artists, musicians, photographers, painters and people that were in theater. Just having the art-communal hippie experience as a child, there wasn't a clear line that was drawn. We celebrated creative experience and creative expression. We didn't try and curtail it and stunt any of that kind of growth.

The desire to be rewarded for one's creativity does not justify depriving the world in general of all or part of that creativity.

When a writer makes something, it's theirs forever. That is the magic for me.

Allow the artist to finish the piece of work before you critique it.

I think about that 'empty' space a lot. That emptiness is what allows for something to actually evolve in a natural way. I've had to learn that over the years - because one of the traps of being an artist is to always want to be creating, always wanting to produce.

It's impossible to control the reception of your work - the only thing you can control is the experience of writing itself, and the work you create.

I wanna grow and develop as an artist, and I feel like different kinds of collaborations can only help me in that way.

Regardless of any experiences in the past, for me it really is important to be engrossed in as much of the creative process as I possibly can. I was surprised with how much the eight years I spent on 'Castle' actually serviced that. I ended up, in a way, having a free education on that show.

It's hard for new artists to keep hold of what they own.

Only I hold the right to all my songs.

A comedian, or any artist, needs their time to develop what they are doing. There has to be some respect for the art form and when it's allowed to be seen.

An artist should let his style evolve naturally, spontaneously.

When you write a novel or paint a picture, you have the opportunity to approach it and back off, tear up pages, write, rewrite, paint over, and come back to it. In film, once you start shooting, you can't restart the clock, and you keep moving forward, and you don't look back, and you don't go back. And that is, of course, antithetical to the creative process. It's really hard to generate a comfortable creative flow under that kind of pressure.

When I am making music, I am growing at the same time, ain't I?

It's not the norm when creators have any protections with regards to creative control. And so it took some time, I think, for the strip to gain enough popularity where I had enough leverage to come in and say, "It has to be done in a certain way or it's not going to be done at all," and then have people willing to put up with that who were ultimately paying for it. You know, for them to be willing to kind of concede those kind of things. It just takes time, you know?

I think for any writer, creating and controlling your own property is the ultimate dream.

I'm constantly learning as a songwriter, so naturally that makes you grow as an artist. But I also think the more time I spend in music the more time I feel I understand it; or at least I understand where I stand amongst the industry and my identity within it all.