When I have a creative insight, there is a high. I think back in the day, I made music as much as I did because it made me feel so good. I think you could argue that there is a creative addiction - but, you know, the healthy kind.

Creative people have to be fed from the divine source. I have to get fed. I had to get filled up in order to pour out.

The monotony and solitude of a quiet life stimulates the creative mind.

It's difficult because we live in a world that doesn't really respect the creative and intellectual contributions of women. It's more like 'Oh, you're so cute. Be quiet. Shhh, don't talk too much.

Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits.

Without myth, however, every culture loses its healthy creative natural power: it is only a horizon encompassed with myth that rounds off to unity a social movement.