Carolyn Kizer Quotes

I paint daily with watercolors on 5-by-7-inch pads that are small enough for me to take them everywhere.

I mean, if you decided to go out today and get you an instrument and do whatever it is that you do, no one can tell you how you're going to do it but when you do it.

I guess as a kid, I was always creative, and I was involved in music, like piano and violin and choir, so I always knew - I always knew that I wanted to do something that would allow me to be who I am. Generally, that was creatively, imaginatively.

I'm as much my own master as anyone can be, without being the master of others. I can write anywhere - all I need is a couple of hours of solitude and a computer, and I can write a chapter. Since my work is portable, I can live anywhere I like.

Music is chaos. When I write songs, I'm opening the door to madness.

What I'm trying to do is just sing what comes to my body in the context of the song. And if you go by the emotion of the song, it's almost like stepping into a city. Cities have certain customs and rules and laws you can break, and that's what I was doing.

If you're going to paint extremely, you need a big piece of canvas.

I always say that music is a small drop in the ocean of life. I was told a long time ago that your horn, or whatever instrument you play, is a means to be in the world.

The music, for me, doesn't come on a schedule. I don't know when it's going to come, and when it does, I want it out.

I love singing. I love it, and it doesn't feel like a chore. It's an expression.

I have my little craft bag that I bring with me to set everywhere I go.

I just lived openly, as loud as I wanted to be, which translated into our music really well.

I believe that musical instruments are created because they are supposed to be played. There's not an instrument that's been designed to not be playable - it kind of defeats the point.

I think the best part about music is that you can do it anywhere at any time and it's always with you.

My only passion is music.

I love the guitar because you can bring it everywhere, and you can start a jam wherever you are.

We're really lucky because we have a portable studio, which enables us to work wherever we like. There is some extra work involved in setting everything up, but you can find a lot of magic and inspiration in being free to go somewhere completely different.

Everything feels better in London. And if my life feels better, then it's easier to make music.

I'm definitely one of them artists that loves putting the track on and having fun with it, but in my own way.

I didn't want to be in high school. I didn't want to go to grade school. I wanted to learn rock n' roll and paint pictures and throw pots and write haiku and study film.

My favorite thing to do is make music. It's what I spend most of my free time doing.

I never do any song with any expectation.

Nothing can stop a great song, so just keep songwriting.

Before the money or anything, number one, it was just to put out real music, real stuff with a passion, real art.

I get to do my own thing with music. I get to write the songs and sing the songs. As an actor, you have to do what someone else tells you to do and say someone else's words. And you're limited by the way you look and music is just more rewarding creatively for me.