Katy B Quotes

I've always had good songs, it's the great songs that are difficult to find.

Sometimes you get really bitter about how the prettiest images don't typically end up attached to the most interesting music. But I just take that as a challenge to try to do something cool.

What I wanted to hear didn't exist, so it was necessary for me to go out and create it.

What drives me is to still feel creative and like I'm pushing myself as an artist.

I like to work on records when I feel inspired, not because it's expected of me.

No one was creating and I always wanted to be created on.

I think the idea of art kills creativity.

As a creative person, you want to start with a blank canvas.

If you are a creative person, you try to create things that are an extension of yourself.

I always knew that I wanted to be creative, that I wanted to create something.

I love to be creative.

Works of art make rules; rules do not make works of art.

I believe in creative work.

I know the movies that I've liked, and I know the experience that they've given me, so the goal is always to try to create a movie that I would like myself and that would knock me out, challenge me or intrigue me in some way. That's been my criteria for figuring out what I want to do, or also when I'm writing something or creating a scene.

Your creativity before it gets formed into words and songs is the actual substance. No one else can see it, right? Unless you give it the shape of a song or a painting or whatever.

If I have a talent, it lies in the creative process.

I think it's being innovative and very creative to stay away from flat-out sampling somebody else's record. To me, that doesn't show too much of your creative side unless you take a little piece and add it, almost like spice on a chicken.

I've worked with people who wanted to be creative every day: it was like a goal to arrive with something very special. Sometimes it's just disturbing, because special is good when it's needed. But when it's not needed, it's confusing, and you go away from the authenticity by a strong desire to be unique and singular.

That's exactly why I came into music in the first place: to be inspired by what I hear to make it something else, to make it my own. That's how culture, creativity, moves, isn't it?

I feel really relevant and creative, and I don't think I would've made an album if I didn't feel relevant. I wouldn't have said a word.

'It's Everyday Bro' started with me talking about the things I do on a day-to-day basis. From there, the creativity was unleashed, and the song was the result.

I've always been creating, no one had to teach me how to create, I always made things.

I have such deep appreciation for artists who have the ability to create something from within, something completely unique and original to each piece of work.

When you're doing an album, you need to come up with something new, be creative.

I just try to write literally what I love. That's usually the barometer that I use. As trite as it sounds, I'm like, 'what would I want to see? What would I be excited about?'