Huey Lewis Quotes

Art, it seems to me, doesn't need freedom so much as it needs courage and love - some would call it 'soul' or 'Eros.'

You can't ever create defensively. You just have to create the next thing that really speaks to you.

When you do not know what you are doing and what you are doing is the best - that is inspiration.

All great discoveries are made by men whose feelings run ahead of their thinking.

The more I push myself to really live and really experience things and step outside of my comfort zone, the more the songs are allowed to flow.

If I create from the heart, nearly everything works; if from the head, almost nothing.

What I would say to filmmakers, if I may be so bold or so arrogant, is to draw inspiration from other filmmakers, but go to the place in your own gut where everything is nothing. That's a very Zen thing to say, but that place of nothing is where real creativity comes out of.

Be brave enough to live creatively . . . what you'll discover will be wonderful: yourself.

'Birdman' came from a very beautiful side of me, from a part of honesty and surrender about things.

Anything that I write comes from the soul.

Be brave enough to live life creatively. The creative place where no one else has ever been.

Some people say, 'Write what you know.' My thing is, 'Write what scares you.'

I like to have a thing suggested rather than told in full. When every detail is given, the mind rests satisfied, and the imagination loses the desire to use its own wings.

Write from your heart, and God will take care of the rest.

I would tell any aspiring designer to take the time to experience everything they can to really get a feel for what direction they want to go in. And most importantly, let your passion and your gut lead you.

To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong.

As a child I prayed that my calling be revealed - but not with expectation and not with a destination. I became an artist because I didn't know what to do and I thought it was really fun to make things.

Art requires neither complaisance nor politeness; nothing but faith, faith and freedom.

The comfort zone is the great enemy to creativity; moving beyond it necessitates intuition, which in turn configures new perspectives and conquers fears.

What inspires me? I am so inspired every day. I am inspired by thinkers. I am inspired by rebellion. I am inspired by children. I have been inspired by love.

Creativity takes courage.

A lot of people forget how important it is to be creative. We get caught up in getting ahead and in day-to-day minutiae. But creativity is a fundamental mode of expression, as is being tenacious and standing by your own convictions and passions, even if it's not the 'popular' choice.

If one has fear, there can be no initiative in the creative sense of the word. To have initiative in this sense is to do something original - to do it spontaneously, naturally, without being guided, forced, controlled. It is to do something which you love to do.

Make your heart bleed! Put your soul into that damn thing. And try new things.

Relevance, for me, is about being creative and doing things that you believe in, whether that's music or acting or painting a picture, or whatever that is.