Quotes About Passion

Artists don't have to starve any more.

Somehow, the French got this idea of the starving artist. Very romantic, except it's not so romantic for the starving artist.

I was planning on being a starving artist.

I'm dying to do a Sam Shepard play. 'Curse of the Starving Class,' 'Buried Child,' 'True West,' 'Cowboy Mouth,' 'Fool for Love' - I'll do any of them.

If you looked at my resume in the years leading up to Flickr, I worked in a dive shop in landlocked Arkansas; I was a starving artist. I just arrived at the thing I love to do accidentally.

In my early days, I was about 145 pounds. I was really a starving artist; the poster child for starving artists.

I was a starving artist.

I'm basically a starving artist.

When you're a starving artist, you make do. It didn't matter that I didn't know where my rent was coming from.

The natural state of the football fan is bitter disappointment, no matter what the score.

I was in a state of gnawing, sensuous agitation that excited continually both blood and nerves when I sketched out the music for 'Tannhauser' and brought it to completion.

I state in my book 'Become Your Own Matchmaker,' confidence is the key to any endeavor. Women don't realize that when they do things they love and are passionate about - their confidence soars. Men are attracted to women who feel happy and decisive about life.

'World On Fire' isn't necessarily a profound statement about where we are as a planet. It's about living life to the fullest... carpe diem.

I've never made any money off of any of my films. Statement of fact. So without commercial work, I would be in big trouble.

This is a polarizing statement, as I have come to discover, but I am a Pats, Red Sox, Celtics and Bruins fan from birth until death.

I got into this sport to make a statement.

I'm not trying to get across some sort of message or statement. I'm just literally trying to write the best songs I can write. It's all that matters.

It didn't matter what it was. I was always making bold statements at school. Ever since I've always had a passion for clothes, shoes and that type of stuff.

If it's not going to sound like Terrapin Station, what's the point of playing Terrapin Station?

Even if I was playing the keyboard in an orchestra, or a radio jockey playing music at an FM station, I would have been the happiest person. So, for me, all this... being a music composer and getting appreciated for my craft... it is a bonus. It is God's gift.

I walk around every day with a radio playing constantly in my head, and this radio station plays a lot of hits. But it's all my songs, so that's something to be excited about 24 hours a day.

I started radio, actually, when I was 13. I started DJing when I was 13, but later in that year, I started a high school station at Phillips Academy. I didn't actually go there, but it was in the town I went to high school in. So literally, within six months of DJing, they started mailing me records; it was crazy.

At 14, I began working in radio. I ran the board at a little radio station in Dallas.

I chose a career in the kitchen because the thought of sitting and doing the same thing every day and being stationary was not something that I could get my head around.