“the creativity starts to make other people want to jump in, and then a lot of people get employed.”

He’s not going to let anybody do his singing for him.

I’m living at a very intense discomfort level because my career has been predicated on safety.

Filthy McNasty’s and I said, I need these things and now fill it in with other iconic buildings.

When I put something into motion

And I’m just kind of blowing through this. And everybody’s, like, happy, and giving thumbs up.

I will never lose anything that an audience will miss

Most of the actors have said “this is the best role they’ve ever had.” So you know, that’s important to me.

People love seeing people trying to change stuff.

I actually had less time and the exact same budget on Hairspray, which was few years ago and this is a much bigger movie [then Rock of Ages]. That’s the way studios do it now.

The discovery of dance has changed my life in unimaginable ways.

Believe me, there was never any discussion of lip syncing or another voice or anything like that, because if the guy’s going to hang out on the top of the Burj

Dancing and music were my first love. I was happiest at being a chorus boy.

There was a lot of stuff [in Rock of Ages] that had effects in it and I thought it was too smooth.

I think of myself of as a little bit of hack, and think like that, and I think of her [Mia Michaels] as an artist.

I grew up looking at the Sunset Strip, literally.

I turned things that were scripted as effects into in-camera stuff, which is sexier.

To live an honest, simple life, filled with creativity, joy, compassion, and a deeper, richer appreciation for the world around us.

Creativity comes from applying things you learn in other fields to the field you work in.

Few sensible authors are happy discussing the creative process–it is, after all, black magic.

In any art, you don’t know in advance what you want to say – it’s revealed to you as you say it. That’s the difference between art and illustration.

I think people associate genre and music style with creativity, but it’s all creativity regardless of what pipeline it comes down.

Creativity is magic. Don’t examine it too closely.

Arthur V. Berger commenting on the music of Aaron Copland: Here is at last an American that we may place unapologetically beside the great recognized creative figures of any other country.

A creative artist works on his next composition because he was not satisfied with his previous one.