John Green Quotes

For me, self-gratification eventually took a backseat to trying to do something collaborative with other people, to trying to make something new.

Working with different people and do things that normally I would not do makes the music interesting for me to continue. It keeps me alive. When I'm doing something alone, that is mine, I know how it is. But when I'm working with someone else, I also see the view from the other, and usually learn something new, try something different. This is very important to my happiness.

If I collaborate with people, ideas...they take interesting turns and twists, and I'm excited for that and that process and excited to see what we come up with.

I love getting into a studio with a bunch of friends. When the day's done, we've made something. We recognize that we're from different walks of the music industry, and there's no reason we shouldn't be collaborating. That's what I'm trying to create with thenewno2 - a sense of community.

I realized late in life that my twin passions are music and people.

The Roots want to dip our toes into everything in the arts.

My mother and father were visionaries in Pittsburgh, part of that collective of people who were creative and active together, and I am a product of that community and those relationships.

Nothing new that is really interesting comes without collaboration

I'm always looking for people to feel connected to me and inspired in their own right.

Success means different things to different people. To me, the greatest quality of successful human beings is the ability to love.

Happiness is not based on possessions, power or prestige, but on relationships with people you love and respect.

I just really enjoy the process of working with other talented, creative people. There's great power in bringing diverse points of view together. It can be incredibly stimulating.

I definitely want to work with people who are artists and who are interested in being their best version of themselves.

Any kind of vision needs people.

I think that there's a sense of self-reliance that exists in skateboarding that kids can take to their daily lives. I think there's also a sense of creativity and community-based goals - in skating, even though it is an individual pursuit, a lot of things that you learn are things that you borrow and expand from other people's ideas. I call skating a combined evolution - it's individual, it's artistic, but at the time, there is a communal push to keep doing your thing. And a sense of camaraderie in that.

The reason I've been groundedand able to make albums, is because I've allowed my friends to come with me and voice an opinion. That's who keeps you grounded, the people who have known you longest.

Up to a point you welcome being interrupted because it is only by interacting with other people that you get anything interesting done.

People are more productive when they're alone, but they're more collaborative and innovative when they're together.

People can get involved in wonderfully creative ways that have nothing to do with you, but spark off things you begin with.

A creative life is an amplified life. It's a bigger life, a happier life, an expanded life, and a hell of a lot more interesting life. Living in this manner-continually and stubbornly bringing forth the jewels that are hidden within you-is a fine art, in and of itself.

I think if I was ever really going to be more serious about writing I'd have to try and find some way to do it with other people. I do find the silence kind of eerie.

Every director is different, but the insights from new people on set give you a different opinion and perspective, which is always embraced, in some way.

We should invest in people not ideas. A good idea is often destroyed by bad people and good people can always make a bad idea better.

You can get really far by putting your ideas out there and letting other people build on them.

You always want to challenge yourself and work with people you respect. You can't always go by genres, but it's always fun to challenge yourself.