Creative Release Quotes

Once you put songs out, they're not yours anymore. They're everyone else's.

Once a song comes out, these songs aren't mine. They're everybody's. So there you go.

Talking is a hydrant in the yard and writing is a faucet upstairs in the house. Opening the first takes the pressure off the second.

It's one of my short-term goals, to be able to actually record music and release it simultaneously and not just hold on to it.

There was a sadness over me, a melancholy. That's always been a part of me - those are some of the things that lead you to the arts.

When I'm writing something, everything falls into place. When I'm not writing, stuff keeps happening to me, and there's nowhere to put it all.

What I like about singing is that, for me, it's a substitute for the psychiatrist's couch.

The form of the blues helps us express our joys, our fears, our - anything you want to express. And it helps you get it out instead of it spiraling inward, and you're getting twisted up and exploding. So it's a bit of salvation.

Poetry is what happens when nothing else can.

I'm not an emotional person; I keep it in, and I wouldn't know how to get it out if it weren't for acting and writing.

I get my most creative sort of energy after a show. So I love to go back to the hotel and compose new material. Generally in a rush, exactly. I have to get it out somehow, otherwise I can't sleep, you know.

As for the zone, I always find the zone immediately after I am sure I will never ever find the zone again because it has left me for some other, better writer.

I'm not going to lie. I am a psycho. Luckily, I get most of it out on stage.

I would feel dead if I didn't have the ability periodically to put my world in order with a poem. I think to be inarticulate is a great suffering, and is especially so to anyone who has a certain knack for poetry.

Miller didn't write Death of a Salesman. He released it. It was there inside him, waiting to be turned loose. That's the measure of its merit.

It is a mistake for a sculptor or a painter to speak or write very often about his job. It releases tension needed for his work.

I try and take it for what it is, and I'm very at peace with the fact that when I'm done with the songs, they don't belong to me anymore. They belong to the listeners.

I often find that having an idea in my head prevents me from doing something else. Working is therefore a way of getting rid of an idea.

When I get an artistic itch, I have to scratch it.

One day, it hit me that music is my calling. I just started playing and writing music. How, I don't know. I just started doing it, and then this big voice came out of my mouth. And it felt like I was releasing something.

Pianos, unlike people, sing when you give them your every growl. They know how to dive into the pit of your stomach and harmonize with your roars when you’ve split yourself open. And when they see you, guts shining, brain pulsing, heart right there exposed in a rhythm that beats need need, need need, need need, pianos do not run. And so she plays.

Speech is the twin of my vision, it is unequal to measure itself, it provokes me forever, it says sarcastically, Walt you contain enough, why don't you let it out then?

When I'm writing a new play, there's a period where I know I shouldn't be out in public much. I imagine most people who create go through something like this. You willfully loosen some of the inner straps that hold your core together.

This experience of getting so lost in my writing that I lose track of time, or of anything outside the imagined world, is a release for me.

The urge to write poetry is like having an itch. When the itch becomes annoying enough, you scratch it.