Creative Overwhelm Quotes

I do so much music that it's like a fog, and I can't even remember all of it.

If there was anything that I learned with my own writing process, maybe there's too many choices what to write about. Just the amount of subject matter in the world these days; maybe that feels chaotic for me.

Back when I was jamming with Axl and the guys they had boxes of cassettes with song ideas. How do you know which ones you like now when you have that many ideas.

I'm up to my ears in unwritten words.

I think the feeling of being kind of overwhelmed is almost part of the aesthetic of the work.

Some directors can become concerned when it comes to music, because it's the end of the process and they're tired. They're worried that the music will intrude or waste something, that a composer will overwhelm the story.

I got done writing Ports of Call and suddenly realized I have far too much material for the book.

There is usually no dreamer so unworldly as the anthologist. He wanders in a vast garden, lost in wonder, unable to decide often between flowers of equal loveliness. ... The true anthologist has the greatest difficulty in finishing his book. There is always just one more, a new, delicious discovery.

I just imagine that every song in and of itself is great, but when you add them all up, it's too much of me maybe.

It's one thing to plan and imagine what you want on a film, but when you actually arrive and survey the scene, there's a moment of, 'Oh my God, what was I thinking?'