Patrick Stump Quotes

I've found that there isn't any correlation whatsoever between the hours put in and the quality of what comes out. Most of the Beatles' songs probably originated in about five minutes.

People who leave their own time out of their work cannot be surprised if their time fails to find them interesting.

I was meticulously copying other art and then I realized I could just use a camera and put my time into an idea instead.

I care about being creative and productive.

I wanna keep being productive and creative.

there seem to be times of reception and times of creation and it is perhaps difficult not to confuse the two.

I love the creative process and being able to build something out of nothing.

Despite all of our technological advances, content creation still requires time, inspiration, and a certain amount of sweat. There aren't any shortcuts. You can't write an algorithm for it. You can't predict it. You can't code it.

I think I've always been slightly addicted to not repeating myself. When you're doing something the first time around, it's often the best time. I think 'Blank Project' is about carrying on. Its that thing where you're making something because you have to, but you don't know how or why.

The creative act amazes me. Whether it's poetry, whether it's music, it's an amazing process, and it has something to do with bringing forth the old out into the world to create and to bring forth that which will rejuvenate.

Art revolves around creating something that isn't there.

We must use time creatively.

I don't choose to analyze what I have done and I think that is the right choice, because then I won't be spending my time creating.

If you want creative workers, give them enough time to play.

I would worry if I wasn't coming up with ideas, if I wasn't inspired.

People say, 'How does having kids change your writing? Do you see the world through their eyes?' No - you just become a faster songwriter... In the old days, you'd be like, 'Oh I'm gonna work on this song for a few days.'

I used to worry that I had a finite supply of ideas, that I should hold on to each of them in case it was the last. But then I talked to other cartoonists, and I realized ideas are cheap; you can have a million ideas. The tricky part is the follow-through: making good ones work, making the best out of the raw material!

In producers, loafing is productive; and no creator, of whatever magnitude, has ever been able to skip that stage, any more than a mother can skip gestation.

I write at high speed because boredom is bad for my health.

I can't remember ever being really bored. I find life very interesting, actually. I think some other musicians are always looking for something to give them an idea, but I find I have to reject 90 percent of my ideas because they don't live up to some self-imposed standard. That's also why I don't make a record once a year. I throw so many things out, and I have to have something to say.

Sometimes time constraints bring out something cool.

I think that 60 percent of inspiration is organization.

It's hard to say how time factors into your work, because sometimes things will come to you very quickly, but it will take years for the ideas to be gestating in your mind.

When you're fast when you're shooting, there are great things that you discover. By being fast you also sometimes get more time to experiment.

Don't just consume things, create things