Tom Peters Quotes

U2 is sort of song writing by accident really. We don't really know what we're doing and when we do, it doesn't seem to help.

I don't really plan too much ahead when I write, because otherwise, I get kind of bored.

You walk on a set, and you have no idea - that's why I don't storyboard. It's all possible.

Most songs I write are spur-of-the-moment-type things. I have to be spontaneous. If not, songwriting can bore me. There is no pre-design or idea of what I am going to do when I go into the studio. It's all like that for me. I could go in and write two or three songs in an eight-hour session. You can't over-think songs. You just can't.

My best stories come out of nowhere, with no concern for form at all.

I don't know what I'm going to write when I begin to write. It feels like you are walking down a path, but you can't see around the bend and you don't know where you are going to go, which is fun.

I imagine that when I am creating a song or a project or an album or putting some clothing together or cooking a meal, whatever it is, I don't really have a recipe. The fun part is to throw that big piece of clay in the middle of the table as hard as I can, and whatever shape it takes, that's what shape it takes, and then I start to carve away.

I never really know what I'm going to write next until it comes to me. So we'll just have to see what happens.

Art is the act of navigating without a map.

For me, you have to not have a formula. You have to not even sit down and say, 'I want to write right now.' It has to just kind of come out. It's not something you can plan.

I like to sit down every day and not know where the book is going. I have no idea where the book is going to go or how it's going to end as I'm writing it.

I sometimes don't know what I'm writing when I start writing it, on some level.

I come in. I'm going to sketch, I'm going to drape, I don't know what I'm going to do.

I'm not the sort of writer who can plan out things. Mostly I have no idea where I'm going.

Choosing to write a play is some kind of surrender. I don't make an outline. I sit and work, and suddenly the door opens, and out it comes.

I just write what comes along. I don't have a detailed master plan.

When I put my brush to canvas, I never know what I'm going to paint. It's like when you're walking down the street with your hands in your pockets, humming a tune, you don't know what you'll be humming five minutes from now.

I'm a guy who likes to make it up as he goes along.

The only good writing is intuitive writing. It would be a big bore if you knew where it was going. It has to be exciting, instantaneous and it has to be a surprise. Then it all comes blurting out and it’s beautiful. I’ve had a sign by my typewriter for 25 years now which reads, ‘DON’T THINK!’

As a writer, you don't know what the hell you're doing. You're just doing it. You hope it works out well.

I've never really had a certain style of music in mind that I make, or am really adamant on how something should sound, but I like the process of not knowing, of just seeing what happens and what comes out.

I write almost purely by instinct. I've never made an outline.

I Still Approach A Scene As One Would Approach A Guitar Solo. You Don't Exactly Know How You're Going To Phrase This Or That. Which I Think Is Beautiful. That Idea Of Chance.

People go, 'What do you want to do?' What do you want to do? What are you feeling? Going into a shoot not fully knowing what I want to do—that excitement, that thing that happens, is just so powerful and makes such great pictures.

When I stand before a canvas, I never know what I'll do, and I am the first one surprised at what comes out.