Pablo Picasso Quotes

I always treat each take as a rehearsal for the next take. That way you can find stuff and keep adding and playing until they tell me to stop.

Nothing is invented and perfected at the same time.

You work on an idea, your first interpretation is very raw and you work it and you work it and it gets polished and polished. It gets to a certain level and then it comes down off that peak.

I don't think I've ever made something that I'm totally satisfied with. That feeling of doubt, or wanting to do more, is my engine to move forward and make the next iteration.

Give the composer time to experiment, time to try out ideas. Also, the time to fail. When the composer has very little time, the temptation is to reach for stock ideas - ideas they know will work and have worked in the past.

New things are always ugly.

Arts and sciences are not cast in a mould, but are found and perfected by degrees, by often handling and polishing.

We all get caught up in the process, especially when you have a wave of success. But to me, being creative is not about rehashing everything you've done over and over. It's to continue to grow, continue to get better.

We are the products of editing, rather than of authorship.

I try something new every night. It's an hour show; if it works I maybe try it a few more times and then move that off and try something new. It's a great workshop for me.

That's the buzz for me, the creative process. An idea is never as good as when it's in your head. And then it's just how little you ruin it.

Sometimes I'm more inspired by stuff that tells a story and less inspired by stuff that's not a natural extension of what I'm already doing.

You're not gonna write a hundred songs and have a hundred entirely different ideas. It's a matter of finding the ones that are the freshest and most unique.

There's something about coming up with something out of nothing. I work with somebody else's creation already, and I just try to make it better.

There's nothing new, even 'new' is inspired by something. We're all, either consciously or unconsciously, we're inspired.

I'm a big advocate of revisions, of living with something for a month and then realizing what needs changing, what was lazy, what could be better.

You must be very creative in our business. Creating in this business is making something new, but it is also touching on something old.

I will play around with an idea for a very long time until it's found it's feet and it's good enough to become a song.

Design is an iterative process. One idea often builds on another.

Most good work is a combination of parts you love and parts you could do better. My constant mantra is, 'Next time, next time, next time.'

Failing is part of my process. A new bit never works the first time. I figure I have to bomb 7 times to make it good. So I tweak it.

My initial ideas are just a starting place. As a record goes along, it becomes more about making discoveries and getting excited about new songs.

I've said, for a long time, my favorite part of my career is when I'm creating a new thing where I'm pulling from a new place.

The most promising ideas begin from novelty and then add familiarity.

The hardest thing in the world to do is to take something everyone already knows and make it a little better.