Creativity?

In one of our class discussions we talked about defining creativity. What does it mean to be creative?

An example which I saw suggested that creativity works like violence (Mark Readman OCR Media Conference 2009). I don't totally understand his logic, but i hopefully by the end of the course I will have more of an opinion on the subject of creativity.

Although on the same power point there was this, I quote from James Oldham 'For a great song...you need a great chorus, you need a great voice singing it and then I think you need to be original with the instrumentation, the arrangement. You just need to give people something different.' I see this as an inspirational quote that works like plan for my coursework and connects well with my musical project. :)