Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes

I love how people in this business push themselves to know themselves, the world, and their creativity better.

The story of 'Lasers' is my story. I didn't have to look too far to get subject matter for this record; it was stuff that was happening to me.

I've taken a look back at my body of work and tried to deduce an essence, capturing aspects that reoccur. Reflecting on your own product can be difficult yet enthralling.

The moment of recognizing your own lack of talent is a flash of genius.

I mean, what do you think creativity is? Nothing but self-indulgence. And the more self-indulgent it is, the more interesting it becomes. So I think that part of creativity is also falling in love with your own narcissism: accepting it, using it as an asset.

'Birdman' came from a very beautiful side of me, from a part of honesty and surrender about things.

Poetry leads us to the unstructured sources of our beings, to the unknown, and returns us to our rational, structured selves refreshed.

I am deeply in tune with my heart and core, and it's made me a better writer, artist, and most of all woman. It's made me more myself.

I have learned so much about myself. I have re-discovered that little boy who had the hunger to create, which I think I had lost.

Songwriting is like going to church. I'm connecting to something, and it's rewarding in really important ways. I don't need to share it with anyone to feel good about it.

It's while writing that suddenly a point of view appears: 'So, that's what I really thought about this thing'. Then it feels part of me.

I've always used poetry to explain myself to myself. These things just sat in my psyche and then came out.

I love life. I'm fascinated by human behavior because that feeds back into my work.

The more I do in my life, the more I can write music about new experiences.

It is well to be alone. It fertilizes the creative impulse.

I do not seek. I find.

Creating is a lonely thing in a lot of ways.

Everyone needs solitude, especially a person who is used to thinking about what she experiences. Solitude is very important in my work as a mode of inspiration, but isolation is not good in this respect. I am not writing poetry about isolation.

I don't know why I write what I write.

Filmmaking is incredible introspective. It forces you to sort of examine yourself in new ways.

The one happiness is to shut one's door upon a little room, with a table before one, and to create; to create life in that isolation from life.

The dream is to keep surprising yourself, never mind the audience.

Sometimes I'm not even aware of some of the issues going on with me in my life until I sit down and start kind of looking for inspiration, trying to find something that inspires that creativity.

The roles I think about and can't stop thinking about - on the subway, when I'm riding my bike, when I'm running - are the things I connect to.

I am a writer. I suppose I think that the highest gift that man has is art, and I am audacious enough to think of myself as an artist - that there is both joy and beauty and illumination and communion between people to be achieved through the dissection of personality.