Quotes About Creativity

I'm trying to give people the chance to put out their music without the bullshit pressures of other labels.

The joy of being a broadcaster is, if you're still allowed to choose your own music.

I think music is the only thing that I'll ever really have.

To sing is to bring to life; impossible if the words are mediocre, however good the music.

I need both music and acting to even think about surviving life. I don't have a choice.

Real music doesn't always win Grammys

I'm born to do music. I'm born to act. I'm born to dance and all of these things, and I will be respected.

Anybody who thinks pop music's easy should try to make a pop single and find out that it isn't.

I just feel that music is a great life, because it's very rewarding. It's a gratification. You do this for yourself, and you also do this for other people.

I think I've been interested in music since I was little.

I can't imagine ever not making music, making albums, writing songs, doing shows. That's all I really know, and that's all I really do.

Music is my time capsule. Each album reflects what I'm going through or what's going on in my life at that moment.

It's entertaining to watch somebody break my music down or explain what he thinks I was thinking during the process of making these records. Because... he has no idea.

I think that sonically, music speaks volumes more than words do, and I have always thought that and will continue to think that for the rest of my life.

The ability to make music is a gift that you're born with; it's not something you can learn.

As I've gotten older, I have gotten a lot better at finding the pleasures of making music despite the business of it.

With my singing I can make, a refuge for my spirit's sake; a house of shining words, to be my fragile immortality.

I enjoy anything to do with music.

If I spend 100 days in a row making music there's a chance nothing will come of it. But if I spend 100 days not making music it's guaranteed that nothing will come of it. So keep working.

I'm approaching a period in my life though where I'd like to be totally absorbed into music, doing concerts, writing something. Basically, that IS what I am doing.

Creating art (music, books, films, etc.) can be beautiful and liberating, but trying to sell art, well, that is the movie business. There are few winners, and lots and lots of losers.

I'm an amateur at music and an amateur at most things. I like the idea of offering some music and some records and a website to people who feel perplexed.

To see itself through, music must have idea or magic. ... Music with neither dies young though rich.

Hip-hop music was something I grew up with, it was something that I loved since I was a little kid, and it's something that I chose to partake in an early age.