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I subscribe to the myth that an artist's creativity comes from torment. Once that's fixed, what do you draw on?


David Byrne

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DEYTH BANGER That's the one for my tombstone... Here lies David Byrne. Why the big suit?
DAVID BYRNE If you're an artist, you want to draw from real life; you want to draw from experiences, emotion...
DAMIEN CHAZELLE When you're younger, your inspiration is there. As you get older, it tends to waver. Once you fi...
ELVIS STOJKO TLC was so real and authentic. And that's music as a whole. When it's an artist, and it come...
DREW SIDORA I'm a comic book artist. So I think to myself, what do I like to draw? I like to draw hot chicks...
FRANK MILLER I'm a free spirit and that definitely comes from my upbringing, so it's definitely shaped me...
NEON HITCH Whether it's music or acting, that creativity all comes from the same source.
IDRIS ELBA If you're an artist, you're an artist; that's the only way I can explain it.
MALIK BENDJELLOUL I've been asked to do a retrospective since I was about 28 and I always thought that was a bit o...
DAMIEN HIRST Nothing less than 7 inches.
CASSANDRA CLARE I worked as an artist, played in a band, met Andy Warhol, Christo, Lou Reed, and David Byrne. I had ...
MARY LOU JEPSEN I think, as an artist, you have to have experienced some deep turmoil, some kind of pain, because th...
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SIMON COWELL There's nobody telling Oprah what to do. There's no one telling David Letterman what he can ...
VICKI LAWRENCE I'm still a big 'Grey's Anatomy' fan.
BROOKE ELLIOTT I used to watch 'Grey's Anatomy' pretty religiously.
ERINN HAYES There is no clear place to draw the line once you eliminate the traditional marriage, and it's t...
LOUIE GOHMERT That's the beauty of creativity. It comes from the ether. I like to think, sometimes, it's l...
ALVIN LEE It wasn't supposed to work - being a new artist, a female artist, an artist on an independent. T...
KELSEA BALLERINI Are you taking us to the beach?" - Dan Cahill
JUDE WATSON Remember that stress doesn't come from what's going on in your life. It comes from your thou...
ANDREW J. BERNSTEIN The body, in 'La Belle Noiseuse,' was the source of the artist's creativity.
EMMANUELLE BEART I don't believe in total freedom for the artist. Left on his own, free to do anything he likes, ...
FEDERICO FELLINI You're always in a box, and you're an escape artist if you do what I do - or if you're a...
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN 28. Feelings are neither right nor wrong. It's what you do with them that causes the problems.
JAMES C. DOBSON I'm not an artist that makes singles, I'm an artist that makes albums, and it's a totall...
RAEKWON Everybody's an artist. Everybody's God. It's just that they're inhibited.
YOKO ONO Creativity is more than just being different. Anybody can plan weird; that's easy. What's ha...
CHARLES MINGUS I really subscribe to that old adage that you should never let the audience get ahead of you for a s...
PAUL THOMAS ANDERSON Excellence is being able to perform at a high level over and over again. You can hit a half-court sh...
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GAVIN ROSSDALE A myth is an old lie that people believe in. White people believe that they're better than anyon...
ERNEST GAINES My little girl's in Heaven. She's my angel, and I can draw from that.
DANIEL CORMIER The idea flow from the human spirit is absolutely unlimited. All you have to do is tap into that wel...
JACK WELCH What comes next? Super Mario 128? Actually, that's what I want to do.
SHIGERU MIYAMOTO That's going to be VEEEEEEERYYYY Nasty....
DEYTH BANGER I constantly think I'll be found out any second. Some of the crazy stuff that goes through your ...
FAYE MARSAY I find the most difficult part of writing is to get it down initially because what you have written ...
JAMES SALTER It's impossible to explain creativity. It's like asking a bird, 'How do you fly?' Yo...
ERIC JEROME DICKEY Once you start thinking about where your products come from and what they 'do,' that's g...
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EVELYNE BROCHU I get asked, 'What do you miss most about being a pastor?' I think it's the intimacy, th...
EUGENE H. PETERSON If I find something I like, I'll chase it and see what comes out the other side. Once a song get...
DAVE MATTHEWS I find it irresponsible to go, 'She's an actress, what does she know?' That means if you...
EVA LONGORIA As an artist, there's so many categories that you're put into, that there are so many things...
CARMEN EJOGO It looks ancient," - Amy Cahill
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HENRY KRAVIS I would hardly call myself an artist in that sense; I doodle, I draw, I'm not a trained artist, ...
RENE AUBERJONOIS I would think, as an artist, it's inescapable that you'll be affected by the world around yo...
DAVE FILONI I subscribe to William Faulkner's' view that history is not just about what we were before b...
KEN BURNS People think because it's photography it's not worth as much, and because it's a woman a...
CINDY SHERMAN Creativity requires input, and that's what research is. You're gathering material with which...
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CHRISTOPHER MCCULLOCH 'The Hobbit' would have been very difficult to pass on, do you know what I mean? It's no...
MARTIN FREEMAN I want to be an improviser, and I've worked very hard at that. It's an art. You don't ju...
NEIL PEART I like to entertain people according to what they're saying entertains them. As an artist, music...
MUSIQ SOULCHILD One has to draw upon one's own musical thoughts and one's own musical acumen, and not to be ...
JESSYE NORMAN I'm probably creative for half an hour a day. The rest of the time, I'm just doing what'...
GARY HUME Life comes down to honesty and doing what's right. That's what's most important.
BOB FELLER Romanticism is not just about being in a fixed state of endless beauty, because you can't live l...
ELIZABETH PEYTON Once you get on the playing field it's not about whether you're liked or not liked. All that...
LEBRON JAMES Read the folklore masters. Go to galleries. Walk in the woods. That's what you need to be an art...
TERRI WINDLING We're all so mauled by information, but it's recycled information. We need to shut it out. S...
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AL YANKOVIC Clearly I'm able to read emotions. But I do feel... What is it? Awkwardness. I'm not a slick...
LOUIS THEROUX I would say I've always lived creativity, but now I - I do it with an intention that's got a...
ABIGAIL WASHBURN It basically comes down to that word: Love. I guess that's what it's all about.
COREY HAIM You're always going to write and draw inspiration from things that you're feeling, things th...
HARRY STYLES The informing idea of what you want to say and do, that's what will take you from film school to...
WILLIAM FRIEDKIN It's not important to how the band functions or to what we do. That's just many people's...
BRODY ARMSTRONG 'Biutiful' is a tough film. It doesn't make concessions to the vulgarity of light entert...
ALEJANDRO GONZALEZ INARRITU It SMELLS ancient," - Dan Cahill
JUDE WATSON Palm trees were fanned by a warm, light breeze, and they rolled down their windows to smell the sea.
JUDE WATSON David Attenborough... has that wonderful, breathy voice, and he's always so fascinated by what h...
JANE BIRKIN I have to be my own artist. I need the world to know who I am, especially for music. When it comes t...
MITCHEL MUSSO You don't just win an Oscar because you're a great actor. You campaign for that Oscar: you e...
DAVID HAREWOOD I try to say I love you in a million different ways. That's what I aspire to do. That's what...
CHRISTINE MCVIE All that stuff about heavy metal and hard rock, I don't subscribe to any of that. It's all j...
OZZY OSBOURNE All that stuff about heavy metal and hard rock, I don't subscribe to any of that. It's all j...
NEIL YOUNG I was a corporate hatchet man, and it's impossible for me to turn that off. It's this curse ...
AL MADRIGAL Living my life socially means there is a swagger to how I dress, walk; it's not about being '...
BJ THE CHICAGO KID I think there's a great strength in having the courage and also having the support to do what yo...
DAVE GAHAN It's an honor to have people follow you and watch you. I do get a lot of fan mail and I read eve...
HELENA MATTSSON As far as I'm concerned, an audience is an audience. Whether it's an audience in Hull or the...
SYLVESTER MCCOY On 'Swingtown,' I think that's when I was able to blend the character-slash-leading lady...
LANA PARRILLA We have this myth that if you work hard, you can accomplish anything. It's not a very American t...
DAVID LINDSAY-ABAIRE Harrison Ford comes on set, and he's very polite and says, 'Hello' to everyone. He cares...
LIAM HEMSWORTH Whatever is about you that is translated into your art, that's gonna keep you completly original...
BUBBA SPARXXX You know, when I put out records that may not work or connect with the audience, it's because I&...
T.I. Once you're involved in a business, it's part of what you do. It's the way you are.
BEN ELLIOT It's hilarious a lot of times. You have a conversation with someone, and he's like, 'You...
JAY-Z Some music comes from a real place; some music comes from your imagination. It's difficult to fi...
ICE T I want to have the fun of doing anime and I love anime, but I can't do storyboards because I can...
QUENTIN TARANTINO It's not for me to determine what a country artist has in common with a hip-hop artist. You go f...
CLIVE DAVIS I don't consider myself an artist necessarily, but craftsmen or people in the arts, their spirit...
AL FRANKEN One of my goals is to find an unsigned YouTube artist and feature them on my album. That's what ...
CHARLIE PUTH You can talk about what you see from the outside; it's hard to tell me who I am when you're ...
RAY LEWIS I could never even entertain the notion that it's an option, to not be an artist.
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BRADLEY BYRNE Democracy is being allowed to vote for the candidate you dislike least.
ROBERT BYRNE Anybody who believes that the way to a man's heart is through his stomach flunked geography.
ROBERT BYRNE Cogito ergo dim sum. (Therefore I think these are pork buns.)
ROBERT BYRNE Love will find a lay.
ROBERT BYRNE Nobody ever committed suicide while reading a good book, but many have while trying to write one.
ROBERT BYRNE Partying is such sweet sorrow.
ROBERT BYRNE In order to preserve your self-respect, it is sometimes necessary to lie and cheat.
ROBERT BYRNE Everything is in a state of flux, including the status quo.
ROBERT BYRNE Doing a thing well is often a waste of time.
ROBERT BYRNE Toymakers are bringing back proven hits because it's less risky than betting on something new.
CHRIS BYRNE O'Neill presents a very complex multi-layered kind of challenge. His characters are always deepl...
GABRIEL BYRNE When you're still, and some actors are really brilliant at that, you bring a kind of energy to y...
GABRIEL BYRNE Anybody who believes that the way to a man's heart is through his stomach flunked geography.
ROBERT BYRNE There's a lot of intensity when you're on a set. And then it just goes away and no one's...
ROSE BYRNE I attended the bedside of a friend who was dying in a Dublin hospital. She lived her last hours in a...
GABRIEL BYRNE We know very little about him and out of courtesy we have accepted his invitation to meet with us.
OLLIE BYRNE Memorial Service: Farewell party for someone who already left.
ROBERT BYRNE Online fundraising is so important to the Democratic Party.
JOHN BYRNE I had one of the best days of my life. I spent the afternoon with my two kids and my ex-wife at Sere...
GABRIEL BYRNE We'll have a great variety of items in the exhibit, including large coverlets, afghans, woven garmen...
JOAN BYRNE This sends a very clear message that we are committed to being in Santa Rosa.
PAT BYRNE