Yoko Ono Quotes

I'm the kind of person who lives my art. It's not that I want to necessarily do it: it's that I have to. It's always been that way. That's how I write songs, and it's always been this way.

I write for the same reason I breathe - because if I didn't, I would die.

Music feels like a six sense to me, and it's never been just a hobby. It's something that I have to do to breathe. It's an extension of who I am.

I'm not happy unless I have a pen in my hand, it's really that simple.

What keeps me interested is that I have to do it. It's like people wake up and they have to breathe; I have to write songs; I have to make music. That's like eating or breathing to me. It's that simple.

People who are artists professionally are not artists because they want to be artists; they have to be artists. They're compelled to get that creativity out and to share that with others.

Only be an artist if you have no choice!

I'm just here to do the best that I can do with the music that I make, and I'm not making it for any other reason than I feel like I have to. These ideas have to be created because they're in me, and if I leave them in my head, I'll go crazy.

Actually, when I write, there is a feeling of necessity, of something that is stronger than myself that demands that I must write as I write.

Writing isn't a job so much as a compulsion. I've been writing since I was very young because for some strange reason, I must write, and also because when I write, I feel more alive and closer to the world than when I'm not writing.

I don't write songs, play music and tour, really, for anyone else but myself. It's something that I have to do to stay alive.

If you cut a painter's hands off, he'd still feel the urge to pick up a brush.

The real artist has no idea that he is sacrificing himself for art. He does what he does for one reason and one reason only-he can't help doing it.

It's absolutely essential to my life. I don't know what I would do if I didn't write.

When a real artist creates something, it has to be a necessity, the only way he can say something.

My passion for painting is so sacred and personal to me.

Some writers, of course, simply write, as they feel they are driven to do, by outer/inner inspirations. If, after the work is written and, hopefully, published, others respond -- that is the Champagne. But we, or some of us, don't write for the Champagne. We write because we write.

I aint choose to rhyme, Rhyming chose me.

Find out the reason that commands you to write; see whether it has spread its roots into the very depth of your heart; confess to yourself you would have to die if you were forbidden to write.

In the end it all comes down to enthusiasm. Your creativity is basically your expression of God-force.

When one wants to write, one writes. If one is condemned to write, one writes.

Love is the spirit of life, and makes all things live.

We do not write because we want to; we write because we have to.

That evidence of the spirit of life is what makes me get out of bed in the morning.

I still have an insane drive to create and express myself, and it'll never stop because I don't know how to stop it.