Creative Damage Quotes

If you dissect a bird / to diagram the tongue, / you'll cut the chord / articulating song.

Poetry is so vital to us until school spoils it.

The whole 'serious artist' thing is very damaging. The powers that be will steer you towards your own demise. One thing I've learned is that it's not very glamourous, and my problems are no different from anybody else's.

The industry is a menace to artists.

When you break an artist, you learn a lot.

I'd rather not get into what I'm talking about lyrically. I think it's impossible not to demystify a song when saying what it's about. Music and art can be damaged severely by too much information; I say that as somebody that has participated in that.

It's something I've seen a lot of: these tortured geniuses, or self-proclaimed tortured geniuses, who kind of take their damage out on others. I think being a showrunner, you have a lot of unchecked power and I think that can be a very dangerous thing.

For writers that rehearsal period is death. It is the most destructive thing of all to a script.