Herman Melville Quotes

I mean, what do you think creativity is? Nothing but self-indulgence. And the more self-indulgent it is, the more interesting it becomes. So I think that part of creativity is also falling in love with your own narcissism: accepting it, using it as an asset.

I have learned so much about myself. I have re-discovered that little boy who had the hunger to create, which I think I had lost.

I love how people in this business push themselves to know themselves, the world, and their creativity better.

The dream is to keep surprising yourself, never mind the audience.

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

One of the most important reasons for living is to do something - live outside of yourself and put together an idea, an idea that you want to explore and then complete... Awaken your creative sensitivities!

The individual - man as a man, man as a brain, if you like - interests me more than what he makes because I've noticed that most artists only repeat themselves.

We all do 'do, re, mi,' but you have got to find the other notes yourself.

To create something you must be something.

Songwriting is like going to church. I'm connecting to something, and it's rewarding in really important ways. I don't need to share it with anyone to feel good about it.

The stage sharpened my creative instrument and encouraged me to go deeper and try new things.

I love life. I'm fascinated by human behavior because that feeds back into my work.

The more I do in my life, the more I can write music about new experiences.

For me, it's always just been about finding material that I think is creative and interesting and fun and something that can expand me and that I can hopefully do something with.

To work on great material, what you really end up working on is yourself, your own humanity.

I do not seek. I find.

If you ever have a kid who doesn't know what to do, stick him in art school. It's amazing what evolves.

The story of 'Lasers' is my story. I didn't have to look too far to get subject matter for this record; it was stuff that was happening to me.

To me that's what Jobs was about. He said at the end of the movie, 'When you realize that the world was created by people no smarter than you, your life will change.' That, to me, is a message for right now and people figuring out what they're going to do with themselves.

I'd asked around 10 or 15 people for suggestions. Finally one lady friend asked the right question, 'Well, what do you love most?' That's how I started painting money.

The new idea for me now is creativity. I like to express myself.

I can't imagine not being in a phase where I'm trying to understand something or create something. That's the essence of life.

I care about being creative and expressing myself.

As my life changes, it gives me new things to write about.

The part of the process that's exciting to me is feeling like I'm in a place I've never been before, in every way. Without that, I don't know if I'd be a writer.