Quotes About Creativity

I have a passion for the music - not because of I wanna be in the lights or the money, but it's because it's my life. It's my heart.

I wanna be an artist on the whole; I don't wanna be within a genre.

I was 13 years old. I feel like I didn't have a sense of artistry, and I didn't have a sense of the music that I wanted to make, and every time I'd go into the studio, and I'd make my EP, a month later I'd scrap it and be like, 'I hate every song. I don't wanna do it.' Because that's how 13-year-olds are.

I dropped out of arts school because I didn't wanna stare at a computer all day - I get headaches.

As a musician, I don't wanna put out political soundbites.

I feel like I've gotten myself comfortable making beats in front of people, so like, if I'm in a big room of people, I'm not like, nervous. I wanna be able to make beats on the spot.

I wanna work with my girl Maliibu Miitch. I love Maliibu. I definitely wanna work with Beyonce, Rihanna. I'm a huge fan of Rihanna and Beyonce, so that's like my dream collab.

I feel like all my songs slept-on. I'm not complainin', but I just wanna drop more heat.

I could only do music if I could do it the way I could do it. That's what be making me stop, I don't wanna do music in the box.

As Laurel Van Ness it's so much fun, and with that comes a creative outlet. You can be who you wanna be and be that particular character. I'm so thankful that Impact allows me to do that.

The beautiful thing about art is that there's always somewhere to go. There's always something new to explore and, as an artist, that's just what I want to do. I wanna keep exploring new things with different directors with different producers and different styles and tones.

I wanna do mystery, I wanna do sci-fi, I wanna do horror, and I wanna do all of those things.

I just wanna keep making stuff that - in a very selfish way - I find interesting.

What I did is I bought a drum set and I listened to 80s music, and I played, and I was, like, DJ'ing, and I said, 'this is what I wanna make. This is how I'm gonna give back to the people. I'm gonna make this party music.' It pulled me out of the depression, and then I've never been depressed since.

I'm very thankful that I'm in a position where I'll never be without a session. I'll always have someone who will want to get in the studio with me, or there'll always be someone that I'll wanna get in the studio with.

I could probably have an idea one day and then go into the studio and really wanna write about just that idea that I have in mind. Or it can vary with just a simple beat and I just do a bunch of melodies on the track that inspire me.

I just like to do things that people can remember, but I wanna always do my own album and make statements.

Lenny Kravitz is someone I wanna work with. But Prince for sure. He's someone I've loved ever since I was in High School.

Diddy was trying to squeeze the life out of me. I felt like I don't wanna keep giving him my bars. Cause he's taking from my tank. I need all of these bars.

I just wanna make more music, legit music as opposed to keeping the same constant thing. I wanna show growth in the music, pretty much.

I wanna take what I'm doing and create something around it as opposed to trying to fit into someone else's world.

I wanna keep rapping, I intend to. It's good to mix it up, but I'm still gonna stay true to rapping.

The number one benefit of information technology is that it empowers people to do what they want to do. It lets people be creative. It lets people be productive. It lets people learn things they didn't think they could learn before, and so in a sense it is all about potential.

You say to a brick, 'What do you want, brick?' And brick says to you, 'I like an arch.' And you say to brick, 'Look, I want one, too, but arches are expensive and I can use a concrete lintel.' And then you say: 'What do you think of that, brick?' Brick says: 'I like an arch.'