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I realize that I'm not going to be everybody's cup of tea, and that's okay. I think that's the point of music.

I'm creative in my own life. I'm creative when I step out the door. I'm creative when I pick up a glass. Do you know what I mean? I'm one of those dreadful people who probably should have been born at the end of the 19th century and been in cafe society. That would have suited me fine.

And unless you have that sense of being creative, people think you're just working all the time.

Creativity runs on automatic, no matter what's happening in other parts of my life. I can't help myself. It's been in me, and it evolves in me over the years. It's a condition in me.

But if you think you aren't creative that's cool, too. I think being around people who aren't creative is kind of refreshing and nice.

I watch people who are not driven by creativity any more, and I think how dull it must be to produce the same kind of thing. If you don't feel you're reaching something new, then don't do it.

The idea of seeing everybody clad the same is not really my cup of tea.

When I don't have a good time, it's usually because there's a stiffness that stifles creativity.

I consider creativity to be a more non-rational, subconscious thing. You have a relationship to your creativity - you can feed it with content, with some rational prodding and sleep and things like that, but the mechanisms by which your creativity work are largely unknown.

And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.