The single most important factor in determining America's success in the 21st century will be maintaining our ability to be an innovative and creative society.
Technology is us. There is no separation. It's a pure expression of human creative will. It doesn't exist anywhere else in the universe. I'm rather sure of that.
What I love about London is the energy and the creativity. Culturally, it is such a happening city, from the cuisine to the fashion.
Jane's Addiction has only put out new music when our hearts were in and when we had something to say creatively.
To me, it's all about opening all the doors and getting people to be not only prolific, but creative and having control of their music.
In my opinion, creative control means a lot, I feel like I'm really in touch with who my fans are and what they like about my music, and I'm able to communicate directly with them.
You can be creative in anything - in math, science, engineering, philosophy - as much as you can in music or in painting or in dance.
Most people have a passive relationship with music and clothes, with culture. But music was my first contact with anything creative. Music is it, as far as I'm concerned.
There are parallels between the music and film worlds, but they're really very different. I feel like they're just two different ways to channel my creativity.
I'm very detail oriented. Everything that takes a lot of dedication and creativity I do in the morning when there is light and I'm really concentrated.
I don't know what drives me, but I wake up in the morning, and I want to participate in the creative cultural conversation.
In television, the 60-minute series, 'The Wire' and 'Mad Men' and so on, the writer is the primary creative artist.
I'm not mad about movies, there are too many people involved in the making of them, and they lack a definitive creative focus.
My parents taught me to believe that through the creative act, we're able to transcend and give a response to desecration.
Paul is a very creative artist but I'm more that thorough, meticulous, disciplined nut.
Creativity is just an attraction to the second rate minds but simplification to the first rate minds.
It is important to make your own stuff. Even if you are not an actor, it is important to not stop involving yourself as a creative person.
Solitude is the most fertile land that yields the bumper crop of mind's creativity
Periods of tranquility are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up.
Now along comes the potential creative destruction brought by a different distribution methodology, the Internet.
Politics itself is so unsexy, isn't it? But when the politics in creative works are really explored - not used as a vehicle - the results can be really interesting.