Dan Reynolds Quotes

I wanted it so badly that there was no choice. It's like something in your blood that you have to do.

Making music is still what keeps a fire going on in me.

You don't decide to paint. It's like getting hungry and going to the kitchen to eat. It's a need, not a choice.

I don't write these stories for the rewards that come back to me. I write them because I have to write them. It's a sickness on some level. It's a compulsion.

Life obliges me to do something, so I paint.

In my experience, there is only one motivation, and that is desire. No reasons or principle contain it or stand against it.

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.

Music is something that you really have to want to do it, and there has to be a reason behind it.

I was never in this for the money. It's all about the passion for the music.

Talent is a feeling that you want to play.

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.

I wrote because I had to. I couldn't stop. There wasn't anything else I could do. If no one ever bought anything, anything I ever did, I'd still be writing. It's beyond a compulsion.

One starts an action simply because one must do something.

Music is something I really have a need to do - I don't seem to be able to stop

Authorship has never been with me a matter of choice. I have not done it for amusement, or for money, or for fame, or for any reason but because I could not help it.

If I'm inspired and music inspires me, then I will continue to play it.

Desperation is a necessary ingredient to learning anything, or creating anything. Period. If you ain't desperate at some point, you ain't interesting.

At the end of Requiem all I wanted to do was get a DV camera and just do a small film. But then the hunger comes back.

People ask you all the time, 'Why do you do this? Why don't you quit, man, take your money and go home?' I just do it because I love making music.

These are the sort of things that push you on in music - the curiosity, a passion for new ideas.

I'm inspired to do music. I really can't stop unless I stop being inspired.

Music to me is life. It's what gets me going.

I make music and I can't stop. It's a compulsion and an obsession and a curse.

I go on working for the same reason that a hen goes on laying eggs.

Coming to Nashville has been so motivating and inspirational. Just watching people live and breathe their music and create something that they can feel from start to finish.