Sophie Quotes

Paul Gray - he believed in my art, and I believed in his music. Together, we decided to change the world, and that's what we did.

From an artist's point of view, I always want to work with the writers I admire.

The greatness of art is not to find what is common but what is unique.

Design is the courage and brilliance to cover an original and make it different.

We stand for creativity and pushing boundaries and having fun with one's music.

But I'm blessed to work with great people. I collaborate with brilliant stylists both here and in Paris. I work with a great design team. I really allow everyone to bring their ideas. I almost rely on them to inspire me.

You hope and pray that you'll get involved with a director that you understand and who has the same sensibility as you do and knows how to push you and bring out the best in you.

When you're working with a producer, there has to be chemistry.

The artist in me welcomes another opportunity to be creative.

The chemistry was still there. To me, that was the biggest thing: Would the chemistry be there? Can we really go ahead and do this? And it was obvious within the first moment of plugging in the instruments that the magic was still there. It was a fantastic feeling.

Artists aren't looking for you to write them something; they're looking for you to give them something new.

I'm a sponge, the more I absorb, the more I am able to articulate my vision, as artists do, like Picasso. I'm an artist in that light. I went from being an artist to an artiste.

An artist must have imagination. An artist who does not use his imagination is a mechanic.

do what only a true artist can do ... pounce upon the forgotten butterfly of revelation

A great artist ... takes what he did not make and makes of it something that only he can make.

Imagination is the hood ornament on your car of creativity.

Faith is almost the bottom line of creativity; it requires a leap of faith any time we undertake a creative endeavor, whether this is going to the easel, or the page, or onto the stage - or for that matter, in a homelier way, picking out the right fabric for the kitchen curtains, which is also a creative act.

Talent works, genius creates.

It would be fun to write with Adele, actually. She seems like a fun girl to write with.

The moment you cheat for the sake of beauty, you know you're an artist.

Being a songwriter is really the base of being an artist, for me.

What drives the creative person is that we see it all.

I like messing around, and I like working with artists who I respect.

There are no new ideas. There are only new ways of making them felt.

I want to create. I think that's the one word I can grow on.