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When you're heartbroken, you're at your most creative - you have to channel all your energies into something else to not think about it. Contentment is a creativity killer, but don't worry - I'm very capable of making myself discontented.

I don't think anyone does anything from happiness. Happiness is such a good state, it doesn't need to be creative. You're not creative from happiness, you're just happy. You're creative when you're miserable and depressed. You find the key to transform things. Happiness does not need to transform.

You don't necessarily have to be in misery to be talented.

There's always a part of my brain saying: 'Stop getting comfortable. Don't relax.' Because I find it difficult to write when I'm happy. I have to go out there and get battered up and bruised to write anything. I have to feel something.

I think suffering has always been an incentive for my creativity.

For me, creation can only come out of a certain kind of unhappiness. They say in Japan, this thing like the hungry spirit - the hungry mind - is what gets you going forward.

I really just want to be a writer and a storyteller. But maybe pain is one of the things you have to feel in order to be creative.

Your mood doesn't really matter. Some of the best creative work gets done on the days when you feel that everything you're doing is just plain junk.

An author who waits for the right 'mood' will soon find that 'moods' get fewer and fewer until they cease altogether.

I was feeling miserable physically, in a lot of pain to the point where it was almost crippling me, especially creatively. I decided to take that and use it as an inspiration for getting out of bed and making something again.

When you're an artist, there's always a moment in your life when you think you're not inspired and instead of doing things and instead of travel and instead of falling in love, you're just depressed, so you don't move, so you don't change. So you're not inspired.

Insomnia is my greatest inspiration.

I do my best work when I am in pain and turmoil.

I think a lot of songwriters would agree that it's often easier to find inspiration in misery.

You need to suffer to be interesting.

I don't think that there are very many good writers who don't live without a sense of tension. If they haven't got one immediately available to them, then they usually manage to manufacture it in their private lives.

Writing, for me, is very inspiration-dependent. And inspiration can be a jerk.

I think we have a creative impulse where suffering can magnify our work, but so can joy. You can be in love and write the greatest love song ever. Sometimes I think too much suffering makes it difficult to do one's work.

Creative output, you know, is just pain. I'm going to be cliche for a minute and say that great art comes from pain.

The thing is, unfortunately, I write the best songs when I'm miserable.

I wasn't creative when I was depressed. When my depression got treated, I was creative again.

I learned that creativity is all about being frustrated.

I wouldn't have been in the mind-set to do another 'Fly.'

Some songs just fall out of you. And some you have to wrestle out like an abscess.

I think the best mood for writing is a heavy feeling that's a little bit removed from you. Sometimes I feel very self-indulgent and bratty and ungrateful, and no good music comes out of that. But sometimes I can be really sad or have an excess of feeling yet somehow be able to see the big picture more.