Quotes About Passion

I started off in dance. That was actually my first passion, which introduced me to music, which people don't really know.

First and foremost, I loved basketball. My dad introduced me to basketball when I was a baby.

We were introduced to a lot of dance music that we were blown over by. Kidnap Kid we love, WOZ, and Rudimental.

My introduction to sports was through baseball. That's all I knew.

I just knew I loved music, and I wanted to do something in music, but I couldn't sing, I can't dance, I am an introvert. So I was like, 'What exactly is there for me to do? What can I do?' There's all these questions, there's all these things that are telling you 'no' instead of 'yes.' Those are the things I dealt a lot with, my insecurity.

I was very introverted as a child and as an adult. But something inside told me that I needed to express myself, and it would be on the big screen.

I decided to do whatever I could to make sure the business side of music didn't intrude on the creative part.

I have to follow my instinct and intuition and curiosity.

I've always been in rock bands. I was in a rock band with my brother in high school. Then I was playing classical guitar recitals, and people said, 'You know, you can't really do both things.' My intuition told me they were wrong. Somehow, what was interesting about me was that I had those two things in my life.

All my career, all that I've really done has been based on emotion and intuition and gravitating toward what sounds good.

From an early age, my intuition was that I would be a musician.

I'm a collector of experiences and also very impulsive; I get an impulse to do something and my intuition of telling me to do something or if I get this idea and I think it's brilliant, I just have to do it.

I have always been intuitive as far as work is concerned and would continue to select projects based on my gut feel.

People who enjoy what they are doing invariably do it well.

Everything I do, I put my full heart into. I don't want to be just another actor, another singer, another artist. I want to invent history.

I get bored after I invent something because I hate talking about it every time.

We didn't invent this - this rock n' roll thing.

Do not share your inventions with many; share them only with the few who understand and love the sciences.

I know it is one of the most important instruments and inventions, the electric guitar, to me, since television or movies or anything like that.

I thought I wanted to be an inventor but then discovered you couldn't study inventing!

When you make movies the way I do, you invest everything you have. And you do it like a crazy maniac.

Something I stand for is being brave enough to invest in creative ideas that I firmly believe in and bringing those to life.

Whatever you make from music, you invest that right back into what you want to get into in life.

It's nice to invest yourself fully in whatever you're doing... I think it's best to try and give everything you've got; otherwise, what's the point?