Many of the cognitive enhancement drugs serve to increase focus and concentration. But 'letting your mind wander' is very often an important part of the creative process.
No matter how old you get, if you can keep the desire to be creative, you're keeping the man-child alive.
The rigors of creativity - the self-doubt, the revising, the solitude - do require a kind of self-consumption. It comes at a cost; a cost that isn't for everyone.
Because you’re a creation of God, you reflect the Divine qualities of creativity, wisdom, and love.
My background was producing and writing and performing in television when I started out, and I really missed that, that whole creative process that comes from sort of 'me' storytelling.
The Arts are not drugs. They are not guaranteed to act when taken. Something as mysterious and capricious as the creative impulse has to be released before they can act.
I guess I started running when I was about 18 and... I feel like it assists my creativity a bit because it completely just flushes everything out.
To express yourself in a creative way you don't need structure you need an empty mind.
The theater, for me, has always been a place where I'm free to be more creative, a place to sharpen my tools.
The world is not interested in titles and positions, all it wants is your creative mind and the genuinity of the work of your hands.
The world is not interested in titles and positions, all it wants is your creative mind and the genuinity of the work your hands.
There hasn't been one moment in my career where I felt I didn't have any control over the creative aspects of my records.
After I sold my screenplay adaptation of 'Rain Fall' to Sony Pictures, I had no more creative involvement.
The creative part of your brain needs to be stimulated. Sometimes you get blocked in the thing you do, because there's so much pressure to do it.
I listen to Emmylou Harris. She's my favorite. I don't know why, but I just feel more creative with her playing.
I really worked to try and be creative enough on the guitar parts so those who aren't real educated would know that there was some difficulty in doing it.
When you're a creative person, there are just times when you're not listening. You know, I could be looking right at you and thinking about something else.
My personal mission has always been to empower people to be creative. But the Holy Grail of a tinkerer is to make something that makes something.
I think in terms of emotions. And feelings. So sometimes what I say may not always be clear. But creatively, there's a lot to be said for that way of thinking.
You can't just turn on creativity like a faucet. You have to be in the right mood. What mood is that? Last-minute panic.
Creative writing programmes are not very necessary. They just exist so that people like us can make a living.
