Unfiltered Ideas Quotes

America needs some honest men who dare to say what they think, not what they think people want them to think.

I think it's an area that one writes from that is curious because it is not a clearly defined partisan one.

You can't improvise if you are tense. Or thinking too much. You have to really let it go.

I mean, believe me, I'm not for censorship.

Sia is like no one else I've ever worked with. She comes completely from this non-logical but very emotional place. I could be wrong, but she doesn't really seem to analyse what she's writing. She doesn't really revise it, but goes with that first thing that comes out.

If you're creating anything at all, it's really dangerous to care about what people think.

Sometimes, I knew generally what I was going to do, but I've never written anything down. Call it a sixth sense: the lines just come.

It is impossible to advance new theories... when you are under the influence of a particular view, or under the pressure of a particular dogma.

I'm an artist. Artists don't need permission to work. Regardless of whether I'm acting or not, I write. I write when I'm tired in fact, because I believe your most pure thoughts surface.

Writing can't be too calculated. My best writing is when I set it aside, move on. It's not when I'm crafting a sentence, thinking about what word should follow another.

The more you think, the more you ruin things. Art has to come viscerally; otherwise, forget it.

I try to write about internal experience versus the external self. I like to present ideas, but not package them neatly.

Beware thoughts that come in the night. They aren't turned properly; they come in askew, free of sense and restriction, deriving from the most remote of sources.

Don't think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity. It's self-conscious, and anything self-conscious is lousy. You can't try to do things. You simply must do things.

I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.

Let me be clear: I am not an advocate of censorship.

When I start writing songs and it turns into an overly belabored intellectual process, I just throw it out.

I don't believe in censorship in any form.

When I'm writing, I'm trying to access my subconscious and turn off my conscious brain. I use my conscious for research, but when I'm actually writing, I'm trying to get into a place where I'm tapping into the deeper, darker elements of what's going on.

I love the idea of leaving some of the original abstract thought in, because the problem is that when you pick up a pen you become a snob, your own worse critic. You edit yourself in a way that is non-creative.

We're all normal, flawed people who have off-the-cuff thoughts.

The only thing I know is that I paint because I need to, and I paint whatever passes through my head without any other consideration.

I just write the stuff that comes out of me, and then after that, I try to get it made. But I don't think, 'Will I get the money?' and 'Who's this made for?'

Write freely and as rapidly as possible and throw the whole thing on paper.

The magic to our show and, I think, any successful show, be it on the radio or TV, is every person being true to themselves.