I'm a singer and a writer first. I started to rap by accident, being playful.
There is something about the creative process... which is that you can't talk about it. You try to think of anecdotes about it, and you try to explain, but you're never really saying what happened... it's a sort of happy accident.
I was 24 years old at the time. I had no real notion of what photography was about. I had no training. By accident, I put a negative in an enlarger, and you can do many things with that negative.
The thing that interests me about photography, and why it's different from all other media, is that it's the only medium in which there is even the possibility of an accidental masterpiece.
The best poem is that whose worked-upon unmagical passages come closest, in texture and intensity, to those moments of magical accident.
'Bubba Ho-Tep' was an accidental story that turned out to be my first film adaptation, and it's still going strong in story and film.
Photography is an accident.
You have to go through the long, painful process of learning techniques to be able to recognize a "good accident" or a "bad accident."
I'm still not entirely sure how 'Pretty Girl' blew up the way it did. It wasn't really meant to. The song was originally meant for a compilation tape for a magazine called 'The Le Sigh', and I made the video in about 30 minutes.
For me, writing Bridget's [Jones] stories is an instinctive, organic thing, which tends to happen more by accident than design.
I personally do not write highbrow music. If I do, it's by accident.
I wrote a few children's books... not on purpose.
Though man is the only beast that can write, he has small reason to be proud of it. When he utters something that is wise it is nothing that the river horse does not know, and most of his creations are the result of accident.
I read comics and I did science, and never really put them together until I accidentally found myself in the middle of one.
I created a tone for network television that they hadn't really been seen before. And I have to admit that was really more of an accident. I was just writing the way I write.
I'm often associated with parallel narratives or dual narratives. The 'Devil in the White City' was a fluke.
