Creed Bratton is an American actor, singer, and musician. He is a former member of the rock band The Grass Roots and is best known for playing a fictionalized version of himself on the NBC sitcom The Office, which earned him five nominations for the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series. These Creed Bratton quotes will motivate you.
Best Creed Bratton Quotes
- “Nobody steals from Creed Bratton and gets away with it. The last person to do this disappeared. His name? Creed Bratton.” ~ Creed Bratton
- “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
- “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
- “The Taliban is the worst…great heroin though.” ~ Creed Bratton
- “No matter how you get here or where you end up, human beings have this miraculous gift to make that place home.” ~ Creed Bratton
- “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
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“In case you were wondering, my spirit animal is a duck-billed platypus.” ~ Creed Bratton
- “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
- “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
- “Oh, I steal things all the time. It’s just something I do. I stopped caring a long time ago.” ~ Creed Bratton
- “I keep busy. That was my nickname in college, ‘Iron to the Fire.’ I like to keep several things going at once.” ~ Creed Bratton
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“I don’t want to take myself too seriously. That’s my lesson to myself.” ~ Creed Bratton
- “I never took drugs 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 Quotes
- “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
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“When I was a teenager, I was in an iron lung.” ~ Creed Bratton
- “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
- “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
- “Ш’m not cybernaut, this stuff’s so foreign to me.” ~ Creed Bratton
- “Honestly, I love stealing things.” ~ Creed Bratton
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“I don’t sit down to write a song, per se.” ~ Creed Bratton
- “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
- “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
- “I’m a survivalist and a survivor.” ~ Creed Bratton
- “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 a while in Scotland/Ireland and Britain. Great appreciation there for the folk scene and song crafting.” ~ Creed Bratton
