Tommy Shaw Quotes

Always write your ideas down however silly or trivial they might seem. Keep a notebook with you at all times.

I carry a notebook and write down things to do, and I write out thoughts and stuff like that.

I've always got a notepad on or a voice recorder recording ideas.

I often spend the majority of my time thinking and writing down notes.

I spend a lot of time preparing. I think a lot about what I want to do. I have prep books, little notebooks in which I write everything down before a sitting. Otherwise I would forget my ideas.

I carry a notebook with me everywhere. But that's only the first step.

I always have pen and paper with me.

Be a collector of good ideas. Keep a journal. If you hear a good idea, capture it, write it down. Don't trust your memory.

That's the way I work. I get it all plotted in my mind, and then I write it down.

A journalist also needs to be disciplined, and so do I. I am, essentially, lazy. Without discipline I'd be just a mass of gummy bears on the sofa instead of on book tour with my eighth novel.

I'm always jotting things down on pieces of paper. I've got pieces of paper all over my house.

I'm not sitting around thinking of ideas for TV shows.

For one person, organized files might be a crucial tool for creativity; another person finds inspiration in random juxtapositions.

I keep a notebook in my pocket, and I write down all the stuff we could ever do with Foursquare.

I learn my lines while on the golf course. I try to do two or three things at once. I have ideas for books all the time, I have ideas for paintings all the time, and I write them all down. I take my sketchpad and my iPad, which I design on, and I do sit down and do specific tasks at specific times.

But I've got ideas. I keep my little notebook, I've always got that with me. Hopefully there's more stuff than nonsense in there.

Every day, I think of designs, but I don't write them down, and I forget. If only I had an office.

I collect words and phrases and cut things out of newspapers and keep scrapbooks and write down ideas in my phone or 10,000 notebooks all around my house. It's not very organised, but I keep collecting, so I did have a lot of material to help me to write songs.

I'm usually up until around 1 A.M. or 2 A.M. I don't get much sleep - and I prefer it that way, writing notes and coming up with different ideas for two to three hours between 11 P.M. and 1 A.M. or 2 A.M.

I used to just scribble things on a piece of paper whenever an idea would - came to mind. Now with cell phones. It definitely has gotten a lot easier because I can just take it out and just - I'll just sing into my phone.

I'm a planner, an organizer. I write things down because you can visually check them off and see progress. Writing things down is a lost art. I've got sticky notes all over my apartment.

When I was younger, I'd be walking down the street and suddenly panic because I had a cool idea and no way of getting it down - I'd have to sing it all the way home. Now I can hum it into my phone.

I write all the time and I try to think of ideas all the time.

Even if you're just making a list of all the things you have to do, putting your pen to paper gets it out of your head. It puts you in this place of release.

I gotta pound the keys for the ideas to flow.