Quotes About Creativity

Performing, for me, has always been a very inner process.

As far back as I can remember though, I always loved performing.

When I'm not performing? I'm looking for the next big thing.

I started out as a dancer as a kid; I've been dancing since I was 4. So performing was always part of what I was.

I have always enjoyed performing, but I think when I was in the fifth grade was when I discovered that I really loved acting.

I had a very active imagination as a kid, and I was constantly performing, whether I was making money doing it or not, whether it was on a stage in front of 1,000 people or in the living room in front of my family.

I was an extroverted kid and performed, like, acting and singing. Then, the older I got, I realized I enjoyed performing things that I came up with myself more and I enjoyed making people laugh more than making people cry or think.

It's a luxury to not have to just be performing with other people to have my music heard.

I started out as a dancer as a kid; I've been dancing since I was 4. So, performing was always part of what I was. I don't know if it I enjoyed the response I got from people or if I liked having an audience, but there's something in me that wanted to perform.

I started performing very young as a salsa dancer, and every time I was on that stage dancing, all I knew was that I wanted to speak. I wanted the music to stop, and I wanted to speak.

Ever since I was really little, I loved performing and being up on stage, and being the entertainment.

I had the humble beginnings. I was doing comedy in laundry mats in 1992, literally where I would bring a little gorilla amp and a lapel mike and just start performing.

I've been performing since I was very little, about three years old. I was inspired at first by the MTV artists of the '80s and started putting on 'shows' in the apartment, most of them set to Michael Jackson's 'Bad' album. In my mind, there was a full lighting rig behind me... but it was just a couch.

I like the feeling of not knowing where to look when you are only performing for one person or watching someone practice. It creates this kind of a strange in-between, which can be mirrored in the feeling of making a painting.

I always love performing live, and that's what I was doing that started getting me acting parts, so I still find time do it.

When you start performing, you realize that you have to separate yourself from the pack. So I would never wear bell-bottoms, which everybody else was wearing. I had short hair - and to see a 21-year-old guy walk onstage without longish hair was, in itself, weird. Every entertainer needs a shtick.

I like performing live more than anything. I get a little bit afraid in the studio.

I come from a family rooted in the arts, so I think I naturally gravitated towards performing from an early age.

I'm not going to play gigs as Jamie xx. I'm just going to DJ. I'm not comfortable performing my songs on a stage. It's not something I think I'm particularly good at.

What we're looking for at my school is intellectuals. People who want to talk about the art and be knowledgeable about it. People who want to know the history. Not everybody needs to be performing.

When I'm performing music, it's like I'm doing a big improv.

I feel sexy when I'm doing what I love - like when I'm singing or performing or something - that's when I feel the most in control and in my element.

I like the mix of stuff I do. I love movies, but I also enjoy performing live and writing songs.

I started performing in college, but I wasn't writing a lot.