1. “I love music so much; I’ve always played.” – Creed Bratton
2. “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
3. “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.” – Creed Bratton
4. “In case you were wondering, my spirit animal is a duck-billed platypus.” – Creed Bratton
5. “It’s Halloween? That is really, really good timing.” – Creed Bratton
6. “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.” – Creed Bratton
7. “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.” – Creed Bratton
8. “I don’t want to take myself too seriously. That’s my lesson to myself.” – Creed Bratton
9. “Women in stores will pull their children away from me sometimes so they won’t catch the crazy Creed virus. Other folks are disappointed that I’m not that guy in person.” – Creed Bratton
10. “I was a drama major through college.” – Creed Bratton
11. “Be cool, Michael. I saw this guy kill a bunch of people.” – Creed Bratton
12. “I’m not one of these people who sits down and writes to say I’m gonna write a song about this or that, or a specific subject. The songs actually kind of write themselves.” – Creed Bratton
13. “I had always planned to be an actor, and the music was just in my DNA, it’s always been.” – Creed Bratton
14. “You know a human can go on living for several hours after being decapitated.” – Creed Bratton
15. “No matter how you get here or where you end up, human beings have this miraculous gift to make that place home.” – Creed Bratton
16. “I still have auditions for independent films. I’ve been still working.” – Creed Bratton
17. “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
18. “Oh, I steal things all the time. It’s just something I do. I stopped caring a long time ago.” – Creed Bratton
19. “We should hang out by the quarry and throw things down there.” – Creed Bratton
20. “When I was a teenager, I was in an iron-lung.” – Creed Bratton
21. “In my early days, I was about 145 pounds. I was really a starving artist; the poster child for starving artists.” – Creed Bratton
22. “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
23. “You deal with this, or you, me Sammy, Phyllis, the chick you hit with the car…we’re goners.” – Creed Bratton
24. “Apparently, I don’t want to take myself too seriously.” – Creed Bratton
25. “I’ve been involved in a number of cults, both as a leader and a follower. You have more fun as a follower.” – Creed Bratton
26. “I was with a folk trio back in ’63 and ’64, and we traveled all across North Africa, Israel, and Europe.” – Creed Bratton
27. “I do love to walk around in New York because people will notice me, smile, but they never bother anyone. New Yorkers are very cool. I love New York.” – Creed Bratton
28. “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.” – Creed Bratton
29. “Playing with my grandfather, grandmother and my parents, I came to music pretty naturally.” – Creed Bratton
30. “I keep busy. That was my nickname in college, ‘Iron to the Fire.’ I like to keep several things going at once.” – Creed Bratton
31. “Guys, I’m starting to think Pam’s not even pregnant.” – Creed Bratton
32. “You should see how many supplies I’ve taken from this place. Honestly, I love stealing.” – Creed Bratton
33. “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
34. “I’m a survivalist and a survivor.” – Creed Bratton
35. “I’m not one of these people who sits down and writes to say I’m gonna write a song about this or that, or a specific subject. The songs actually kind of write themselves.” – Creed Bratton
36. “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.” – Creed Bratton
37. “I sprout mung beans on a damp paper towel in my desk drawer. Very nutritious, but they smell like death.” – Creed Bratton
38. “Nobody steals from Creed Bratton and gets away with it. The last person to do this disappeared. His name? Creed Bratton.” – Creed Bratton
39. “Honestly, I love stealing things.” – Creed Bratton
40. “I wouldn’t really say I’m a jazz guy, which I’m not.” – Creed Bratton
41. “I don’t sit down to write a song, per se.” – Creed Bratton
42. “Be cool, Michael. I saw this guy kill a bunch of people.” – Creed Bratton
43. “We should hang out by the quarry and throw things down there.” – Creed Bratton