creative depletion Quotes

What does the money machine eat? It eats youth, spontaneity, life, beauty, and, above all, it eats creativity. It eats quality and sh*ts quantity.

I have asked a lot of my emotions-one hundred and twenty stories. The price was high, right up with Kipling, because there was one little drop of something, not blood, not a tear, not my seed, but me more intimately than these, in every story, it was the extra I had. Now it has gone and I am just like you now.

Some stories, you use up. Others use you up.

I actually think the creative process is finite, and I'm wondering whether I've retched everything up. Because it's like vomiting or shitting.

Probably not much of a song left in me, you know, if any, because I've written so many, some 250 songs or 300 or whatever it is.

I don't really have any ditties left in me anymore.

An artist spends himself like the crayon in his hand, till he is all gone.

When writing becomes too dominant, it gets leached of its own power. We spend more and more time writing and we have less and less to write about.

You can't have anything else to say: you've poured out every drop of what you know.