If you look back, you get stuck in a year. I've seen rappers and singers get stuck in 2002 or 2005, and they can't get out.
As an actor, I think you can get really bad habits, if you do the same thing, every day. You can get stuck in a rut. So, I like jumping between genres, and then taking a break and learning something new. I like feeling like I'm still learning.
I haven't written anything in four years. I'm sort of dried up.
I've had a five- or six-year down-spell as a writer, and now that most of the other contracts are cleared or down to the last book, I have a chance to do what I want to do - specifically, something set in New Orleans.
The trip had become boring. It wasn't exciting anymore to totally be a singer/songwriter because it wasn't working for me.
For 15 years, I've been playing the same character - which is myself - and I'm bored with 'myself'.
I don't want to be stuck in the same spot, just dropping mixtapes for no reason.
There was about six months when I was absorbing other stuff and not drawing very much. After a long period of not drawing, you have to, like, relearn how to draw. It's not very fun.
Writer's block is a phony, made up, BS excuse for not doing your work.
Comedians tend to find a comfort zone and stay there and do lamer versions of themselves for the rest of their career.
I don't want to be seen in every second film. I don't want the audience to say, 'Oh no, she's in this one too.'
You can get stale writing with each other for a while.
There are writers who do start doing the same thing again and again and almost inevitably fall into self-parody.
A lot of artists who have a certain style are expected to more or less keep doing their style. It's so easy to get into that rut of production.
I'm done with girls on rocks! I've painted them for thirteen years and I could paint them and sell them for thirteen more. That's the peril of the commercial art game. It tempts a man to repeat himself. it's an awful thing to get to be a rubber stamp. I'm quitting my rut now while I'm still able.
Writer's block is a fancy term made up by whiners so they can have an excuse to drink alcohol.
I never, ever wanted to be the Rolling Stones. Bless their hearts, but I don't necessarily want to go on doing the same old thing for the next 10, 20 years... I could see how easy it is to get into that rut, the whole touring mindset.
I don't want to get stuck playing the same character over and over again.
I'd come to the point where I wasn't really putting out creatively. I didn't seem to have anything to say in that period of time after the '74 tour. There was nothing definite that I wanted to record.
One must also accept that one has 'uncreative' moments. The more honestly one can accept that, the quicker these moments will pass.
