Scott Snyder Quotes

Queen songs tend to be about very personal things: personal dreams and personal ambitions.

Let's make some funny pictures.

What I do is I write mainly about very personal and rather lonely feelings, and I explore them in a different way each time. You know, what I do is not terribly intellectual. I'm a pop singer for Christ's sake. As a person, I'm fairly uncomplicated.

I wish there were more humor in my work than I see in it.

I think I've lived a pretty hard life. What I mean by hard is that... I've been kind of reckless with things. I'm a passionate person. I'm a super passionate person. I think there's definitely been sorrow in my life, good and bad. I think it comes through. I hope it comes through in my writing because to me that's what artistry is.

The waltz is a very important part of my life. It's a very important way for me to express my positiveness, bringing humor to the world.

I'm not afraid to use my personal experiences and put them into a song. I think that's when you get the best stuff anyway, when it's real emotion.

With comedy I can search for the profound.

If I'm writing something and I'm not feeling mischievous, then I know it's not going to be great.

You just try to be true to your idea of what is funny and what is also interesting.

The mission of the playwright is to look in his heart and write, to write whatever concerns him at the moment; to write with passion and conviction. Of course the measure of the man will be the measure of the play.

Poetry takes courage because you have to face things and you try to articulate how you feel.

Big picture, it's amazing to create characters and see them brought to life in the art. And to love that art. But I especially enjoy writing a character with heightened powers that aren't especially useful to him.

For better or worse, we are the Court of Appeals for the Hollywood Circuit. Millions of people toil in the shadow of the law we make, and much of their livelihood is made possible by the existence of intellectual property rights. But much of their livelihood - and much of the vibrancy of our culture - also depends on the existence of other intangible rights: The right to draw ideas from a rich and varied public domain, and the right to mock, for profit as well as fun, the cultural icons of our time.

None of the records I make are ever a deliberate construction - they're always an expression of who I am at the time and where I am in my life.

Most of my artwork is geared towards being humorous in some light.

I like to play music, and I like to be funny, so I just do both at the same time.

If anything, I've probably tended more toward humor in my writing and veered more toward pleasure in my personal life.

There probably aren't a lot of new superheroes around, so whenever one appears, it makes a bit of noise. Really, most of the people who are my friends write characters they loved as children. I get that, as well, because that's why I got into comics. But I'm also taking this massive liberation creatively, going off and doing new stuff. The first and foremost reason I do it is because I think they're fun, and I can do anything I want. I'm not constrained by continuity.

We launch our souls from the cannons of art and discipline, and on any one night, hovering over the chimney tops of Europe, halfway to the stars, there are armies of brightly spinning spirits that have risen like fireworks, tethered to the souls of those men and women who, by reflection, mortification, and devotion, effortlessly outdazzle kings.

I think you can't write with anger. I think it always has to be with a wink. There always has to be an element of hope in what you write. Otherwise you're just getting mad and it's not going to be fun for anybody.

Fool," said my muse to me. "Look in thy heart and write.

Jokes do finish themselves. I really do see them as ongoing conversations about personal themes that I ruminate on.

Comics seem to be cooking these days. It's like being a rock star.

I feel like pop stars can't be rock stars anymore because they have to be role models, and it takes the fun out of it for us, because we just want to have fun with art.