“There’s a holiness there. If that were to go away, I don’t think I would be interested in it, and I don’t think they would. We’re a real rock ’n’ roll band — always have been. And to us, in the era we came up in, it was a religion in a way. It was more than commerce, it wasn’t about that. It was abo…”— Tom Petty, latimes.com
“I always had a little routine of going into whatever room I was using at the time to write in, and just staying in there till I felt like I got a bite.”— Tom Petty, latimes.com
“Kaur is, in industry parlance, a hack. And while most of us who write for a living believe ourselves to be hacks, at least most of us don’t run around saying the ultimate goal of our work is to be blown up to poster size.”— Lindsey Adler, theconcourse.deadspin.com
“I suppose an aesthetics-first approach to poetry is the perfect strategy for an aesthetics-first platform.”— Lindsey Adler, theconcourse.deadspin.com
“You have to have a taste for words. Gluttony. You have to want to roll in them. You have to read millions of them written by other people.”— John Macdonald, amazon.com
“I am often given the big smiling handshake at parties (which I avoid attending whenever possible) by someone who then, with an air of gleeful conspiracy, will say, ‘You know, I’ve always wanted to write.’ I used to try to be polite. These days I reply with the same jubilant excitement: ‘You know, I’…”— John Macdonald, amazon.com
“Artists are people driven by the tension between the desire to communicate and the desire to hide.”— Donald Winnicott, goodreads.com
“— a lot of people who are artists don't understand it themselves. Especially the young ones. They feel different, but they don't know what it is. They feel more. Everything hurts. Everything. They're supersensitive. They see things that other people don't see.”— Rick Rubin, esquire.com
“Artists are people driven by the tension between the desire to communicate and the desire to hide.”— D.W. Winnicott, goodreads.com
“I’m an artist creating perfect images at every moment, then melting down those images before your eyes.”— Rumi, twitter.com
“Artists are people driven by the tension between the desire to communicate and the desire to hide.”— D.W. Winnicott, goodreads.com
“Real artists have day jobs, and night jobs, and afternoon jobs. Real artists make things other than art, and then they make time to make art because art is screaming to get out from inside them. Screaming, or begging, or gently whispering. Don’t ever let them tell you you’re not a success. Don’t eve…”— Sara Benincasa, medium.com
“We have this dichotomy in our heads of the starving artist and the rich and famous, sex-drugs-rock-and-roll, world-touring musician. And that myth is — I don’t even want to say dying. It’s dead. That myth is no longer true. But the rest of the world doesn’t know that yet.”— Jack Conte, theverge.com
“The only people I would care to be with now are artists and people who have suffered: those who know what beauty is, and those who know what sorrow is: nobody else interests me.”— Oscar Wilde, amazon.com
“I was talking to Spike Jonze the other day, and he was like, 'Yeah, I'm not really doing anything right now. My rule is, if it's not more fun than going surfing, I'm not gonna do it.' I love when I say no to everything.”— Aziz Ansari, gq.com
“I don't need to make more stuff. I've made a lot of stuff! I'm financially okay. I'm not gonna make stuff just for the sake of making stuff. I want to make stuff ’cause I'm inspired. Right now I don't really feel inspired.”— Aziz Ansari, gq.com