Lou Gramm Quotes

And if you don't live, you have nothing to write about.

I'm always writing and reflecting on life. I want to suck it all in.

Truly, I'm not joking when I thank my lucky stars for the awful operation I had, since it has made me young again and philosophical which means that I don't want to fritter away the new lease on life I've been given.

You're only a new artist one time, and I can just say I'm so blessed. I feel so inspired to do other things, to be so much more.

At the age of 80, I'm becoming a visual artist. This could be my rebirth.

It's all about creation and surprise. It just needs to be appreciated and watered like flowers. You have to water flowers. These peaks will come again.

It is only in the shadows, when some fresh wave, truly original, truly creative, breaks upon the shore, that there will be a rediscovery of the West.

It's been fun. I've had a lucky life. Art has made me pull the best out of myself.

The creative act amazes me. Whether it's poetry, whether it's music, it's an amazing process, and it has something to do with bringing forth the old out into the world to create and to bring forth that which will rejuvenate.

I love how people in this business push themselves to know themselves, the world, and their creativity better.

Sometimes, you just have to clear your head and get out to see other things. It is very important to be nourished. I love to go to museums and galleries, I like to see theatre, film, dance - anything creative. It doesn't promise you inspiration, but it nourishes your creative soul, and that's good.

I used to be on the kitchen floor, crying, wasted and thinking of lyrics. That was the only way I could create - as a tortured artist. I've learned that you can be stable and taking care of yourself and still create beautiful work.

I consider everything I compose a gift.

Genius is the ability to renew one's emotions in daily experience.

All my inspiration comes from life. That's how it never stops, in a way.

Each day the world is born anew for him who takes it rightly.

One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star.

I'm very grateful that I was given the ability to create.

I think the best mood for writing is a heavy feeling that's a little bit removed from you. Sometimes I feel very self-indulgent and bratty and ungrateful, and no good music comes out of that. But sometimes I can be really sad or have an excess of feeling yet somehow be able to see the big picture more.

I want to thank anyone who spends part of their day creating...anybody who spends part of their day sharing their experience with us-I think this world would be unlivable without art and I thank you.

As writers we live life twice, like a cow that eats its food once and then regurgitates it to chew and digest it again. We have a second chance at biting into our experience and examining it. ...This is our life and it's not going to last forever. There isn't time to talk about someday writing that short story or poem or novel. Slow down now, touch what is around you, and out of care and compassion for each moment and detail, put pen to paper and begin to write.

In the midst of creating, a person is raised to another level of consciousness.

It's a nice way to put the focus back on this simple act... if someone creates you.

I need to fill myself up with real life. That's kind of the well I draw from.

I'm so happy to be a song-writer - I'm even surprised when I get to record anything. I consider it a considerable privilege and a blessing to have a medium of expression that has a place in the world.