top of page
"I try not to do anything by formula."
Standard
Customized
More

"Labels don't mean anything to me. I'm trying to play as passionately as I'm able to. If they want to call that cool, that's fine. Just spell the name right, is the formula."
Author Name
Personal Development

"I don't want ever to be guilty of what my critics claim: doing formula without original elements."
Author Name
Personal Development

"They're getting me involved in intrigue again, and I think it follows a classic formula in a soap opera."
Author Name
Personal Development

"It's not as if there's a noise problem, because they use the same circuits as Formula One."
Author Name
Personal Development

"Under each formula lies a corpse."
Author Name
Personal Development

"The whole point is, give me a break with the standards. You go to the average jazz label and suggest a record and they want to know which standards you're going to play. I'm saying let's break the formula."
Author Name
Personal Development

"I try not to do anything by formula."
Author Name
Personal Development

"I hate Calvin and Hobbes. I think its a big re-hash of formula kid strips."
Author Name
Personal Development

"If I am given a formula, and I am ignorant of its meaning, it cannot teach me anything, but if I already know it what does the formula teach me?"
Author Name
Personal Development

"Having a set, popular formula does inhibit you."
Author Name
Personal Development
More

"I like songs that have lots of different parts in them, an intro, an outro and a bridge."
Music

"For me, songwriting is something I have to do ritually. I don't just wait for inspiration; I try to write a little bit every day."
Inspirational

"I spend my time trying to figure art out. I was brought up to believe that the way one processes information is by making it into art. That's how I live my life."
Art

"I like songs and film because you can turn your life into a sort of myth or dream."
Life

"Now, music almost feels naked in my mind."
Music

"Songwriting is kind of like a craft. It's not something that just comes in a dream. You've got to work at it."
Work

"I like music because it's the only invisible art form."
Art

"There are only really a few stories to tell in the end, and betrayal and the failure of love is one of those good stories to tell."
Love

"I like songs that go to different places and then come back."
Music

"I like to have books around to give me ideas-to get the verbal part of my brain to start working."
Ideas
bottom of page