Billy Sherwood Quotes

We're the Tom Tom Club and our studio is the Clubhouse. It a way of making it a little more personal.

I wanted to make a place for filmmakers and artists to come and 'do their stuff,' but I didn't expect it to have had the impact that it has.

The fact that I'm in a group that inspires others artists is just heaven to me.

You'd be surprised. A number of developers recognize that having a cultural activity in their space brings kudos. People like the idea of being near to creatives.

I want to do what Kid Cudi did for kids for my generation.

I hold no emotions while I am in there... in there it is just calm and creative.

To me, it's our job as artists. You must bring joy.

Hopefully, other successes aren't like me. It carries much more meaning to other people; my success story is irrelevant. It doesn't make any sense.

I think good creative writing opens up space for people to come into. Let God reach out and touch the human soul. That's not my job. I get to be present and create as much space as I can ... That frees me up just to be creative in the way I want to be.

At 10 o'clock in the morning I'd go right in the studio. It feels good to be there in the morning before the day starts to mess with you - I don't mean in a negative way, but before I'd speak to a lot of people or get into anything, I'd go in there and just see what I felt. A lot happens in the morning for me in the studio.

I'll always definitely strive to write songs that are going to help people feel confident in themselves.

So, take what's inside you and make big, bold choices and for those who can't speak for themselves, use bold voices and make friends and love well, bring art to this place and make the world better for the whole human race.

I like the idea that people get engaged thinking about design, about creativity. I don't see how it could possibly be bad.

I used to sit on the roof of the apartment where Jim Morrison used to write his early lyrics

I believe that doing movies like this is positive because they can inspire and be entertaining.

Art is about trying to find the good in people, and making the world a more compassionate place.

I wake up every day trying to give something back to you that you can rock to and be proud of.

People have to be given permission to write, and they have to be given space to breathe and stumble. They have to be given time to develop and to reveal what they can do.

The idea of space is given to the artist to change if he can. The subject matter in the abstract is space.

A canvas is an arena in which to act.

I am seeing a resurgence of entertainment that not only entertains, but inspires, evokes, and moves. I am seeing strength in the ability of artistic expression to change our future.

When you're dealing with Hollywood people, it creates a tight, tense atmosphere through the whole thing. And I don't like to work in that kind of atmosphere. I like to make my movies in a kind of relaxed atmosphere.

Art should be a place of hope.

A creative act enhances the beauty of the world; it gives something to the world, it never takes anything from it. A creative person comes into the world, enhances the beauty of the world - a song here, a painting there. He makes the world dance better, enjoy better, love better, meditate better.

live in the space between chaos and shape. I walk the line that continually threatens to lose its tautness under me, dropping me into the dark pit where there is no meaning. At other times the line is so wired that it lights up the soles of my feet, gradually my whole body, until I am my own beacon, and I see then the beauty of newly created worlds, a form that is not random. A new beginning.