Larry Mullen Quotes

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!

To create something you must be something.

Your own need to be shines out of any dream or creation you imagine.

The one thing that you have that nobody else has is you. Your voice, your mind, your story, your vision. So write and draw and build and play and dance and live as only you can.

I care about being creative and expressing myself.

I don't feel I have to be Jackson Browne. Still, I like to say something.

I just try to do things that make me excited. If I can find a way to surprise myself, then that's when I'm really excited to share something and really can stand behind it.

People need to be true to themselves, and if entertaining and content-creating is something that does not come naturally and is really difficult, they should find something they are passionate about and love and do that instead.

I have never been able to separate - nor have I wanted to - my personal love and desire for truth, passion, and understanding from my lyrics.

Write or draw or build or sing or live as only you can. And I hope, somewhere in the next year, you surprise yourself.

Be authentic to your dreams. Be authentic to your own idea about yourself. Grind away at your own minds and bodies until you become your own invention. Be Mad Scientists.

What I wanted to hear didn't exist, so it was necessary for me to go out and create it.

The best advice I've received is to be yourself. The best artists do that.

I like to work on records when I feel inspired, not because it's expected of me.

I don't want ever to be guilty of what my critics claim: doing formula without original elements.

Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.

We can use techniques in modifying things, in controlling things, but the first impulse has to be something that you simply cannot make just out of technique, or else it becomes perfectly evident that it is nothing but technique that you're exercising.

I always try to improve, to find new ways of expressing myself, to keep looking for truth and originality.

I define myself by everything that I love, everything I can create, everything that I can imagine.

Years ago, I carved out an identity, and it has always been about having a voice to tell people about stuff I love.

But when you're beginning, you should try to focus on something you love and your own way of doing things.

I think creating of any sort, whatever line you're in, is paramount - you can be an architect, you can be a banker, you can be anything - I think that when you create, you're closest to God and yourself.

Every production of genius must be the production of enthusiasm.

I'll never be August Wilson - but what I can be is more of myself.

I don't study; I create.