Playing with my grandfather, grandmother and my parents, I came to music pretty naturally. Creed Bratton More Quotes by Creed Bratton More Quotes From Creed Bratton Nobody steals from Creed Bratton and gets away with it. The last person to do this disappeared. His name? Creed Bratton. Creed Bratton stealinglastsnames I’ve been involved in a number of cults both as a leader and a follower. You have more fun as a follower but you make more money as a leader. Creed Bratton leadernumbersfun No matter how you get here or where you end up, human beings have this miraculous gift to make that place home. Creed Bratton hatematterhome I’m not offended by homosexuality. In the 60s I made love to many, many women – often outdoors in the mud and the rain – and it’s possible that a man slipped in. There’d be no way of knowing. Creed Bratton knowingrainmen The only difference between me and a homeless man is this job. I will do whatever it takes to survive…like I did when I was a homeless man. Creed Bratton differencesjobsmen I write songs for myself, songs come out of me, I get enjoyment out of it. Basically, that's it - I get enjoyment out of my songs, I know they're good songs, and know that the people around me who I respect are all getting up on these tunes, and the feedback is really good, so that's it. There are people who will receive them, and don't receive them. Not in a spiritual sense, but in a commercial sense - do these songs treat people, and so far they're working. Creed Bratton spiritualwritingsong I'm a pretty normal guy. I do one weird thing. I like to go in the women's room for number two. I've been caught several times and I have paid dearly. Creed Bratton guynumberstwo I never took drug to escape. I know some people take drugs to escape, but I took drugs because I was an experimenter. And an artist. And I was always trying to go to the other side of that veil and get information, like all writers have done through the millennia. To get some insights on how the whole thing works, if there's any way to know how it works, and write about it. Creed Bratton always-tryingartistwriting I think if you don't have it [desire], you're not going to be pushed into anything. You've got to want to do something. Creed Bratton wantdesirethinking When I was a teenager, I was in an iron-lung. Creed Bratton lungsironteenager I love it [music]. I always have loved it. There's something about playing music that inspires me. When I've had some really down periods in my life, debauched beyond belief, not knowing what the hell I'm gonna do with my life, [Rolling Stones'] "Street Fighting Man" or something like that would come on the radio, and I'm pounding the dash and the rock and roll will inspire me to keep going. It inspires me. It's true. Creed Bratton rocksfightingmen In case you were wondering, my spirit animal is a duck billed platypus. Creed Bratton ducksspiritanimal The Taliban is the worst...great heroin though. Creed Bratton herointalibanworst I liked back in the sixties where you'd turn on the radio and go 'Oh that's Hendrix, that's Creedence Clearwater, that's The Doors, there's The Grass Roots, The Monkees, there's Big Brother.' You could just instantly hear it and tell. But in the eighties and nineties there's no way you could do that. Creed Bratton brotherrootsdoors Ш'm not cybernaut, this stuff's so foreign to me. Creed Bratton stuff I'm a survivalist and a survivor. Creed Bratton survivor I wake up in the morning, or the middle of the night when an idea comes through. My songwriting style, basically I just write down information given to me from the muse and how that works for songwriters. Record the muse and the muse delivers. Creed Bratton writingmorningnight I don't want to take myself too seriously. That's my lesson to myself. Creed Bratton lessonswant You've got to be happy, you have to do this thing [music] for the love. It's not like you go into music because it's going to make a lot of money. It's something you do... that's the thing. You got to accept all that hard work with it, too. And enjoy it, and love it. Creed Bratton like-youhard-workand-love When I first went on [Facebook], I found there were five or six Creed Bratton sites. It was all over the place. I had to compete with other people saying they were me. It was nuts, so this is nice that people know that if they're gonna send something to me, I'm gonna be with my weird little mind looking at what they have to say. And what they're seeing is actually me. Creed Bratton nicenutspeople
