Creed Bratton Quotes

I was with a folk trio back in '63 and '64, and we traveled all across North Africa, Israel, and Europe.

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.

Oh, I steal things all the time. It's just something I do. I stopped caring a long time ago.

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.

Apparently, I don't want to take myself too seriously.

Playing with my grandfather, grandmother and my parents, I came to music pretty naturally.

I love music so much; I've always played.

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.

I'm a happy guy.

I love Westerns and I remember as a kid climbing up on the couch and make it into a saddle and shoot guns and fall off. I would lay there after my death and my mom would tell me to eat lunch and I'd say, 'I'm still dead, Mom!' I was Method, even then.

I'm an actor, I created the character myself originally. I do tell the fans I appreciate that they think he's real. It all finally comes down to the writers who really got the character and wrote so many memorable lines.

I don't want to take myself too seriously. That's my lesson to myself.

No matter how you get here or where you end up, human beings have this miraculous gift to make that place home.

What does a painter do? You get a painting, you put some intent and passion and emotion into these things, and hope the people will receive it. Same as a playwright. It's art.

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.

When I was a teenager, I was in an iron-lung.

If I write songs and I think they sound good, then that's it. That's what I do. I'm not a technical musician, which is fine for rock and roll.

Nobody steals from Creed Bratton and gets away with it. The last person to do this disappeared. His name? Creed Bratton.

I'm a survivalist and a 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.

I keep busy. That was my nickname in college, 'Iron to the Fire.' I like to keep several things going at once.

Honestly, I love stealing things.

I had always planned to be an actor, and the music was just in my DNA, it's always been.

I don't sit down to write a song, per se.

There's not that many people from the sixties who have progressed as writers and are continuing on. They're out there. But I'm one of them who's just continued on, following his own little inner madness.

I lived in London in 1965 and 1972. I love it there and I'm always very creative in that vibe. Would love to live for awhile in Scotland/Ireland and Britain. Great appreciation there for the folk scene and song crafting.

I still have auditions for independent films. I've been still working.