Sarah Kay Quotes

I live art, I respect people, and I've found what I want to do in life - I've found what makes me happy.

I was always an artist. I was a broker to earn a living, but I was always thinking about my art.

The practice of any art demands more than 'mere savoir faire'. One must not only be in love with what one does, one must also know how to make love. In love self is obliterated. Only the beloved counts.

I'm a musician because I love it and it's supposed to be fun.

I love what I do. I love playing music.

I don't necessarily do anything just for the money. I do it for the passion and I do it for the love, because I'm still hungry. So if I want to do music, it's not necessarily motivated because of monetary value. It's more about the passion and the love, and I think that's where music should come from, the heart, not necessarily just to cash a check.

If I am constantly working, my relationships fail. So at least now I can have enough time to write a happy record. And be in love and be happy.

But when you think you're supposed to do something with it and imagine that you're the doer, that's pure delusion. Just follow your passion. Do what you love. Inquire, and have a happy life while you're doing it.

Art is a jealous mistress.

Because when you love something, you want to do it all the time, even if no one is paying you for it. At least that's how I felt about drawing.

There are lives lived for love, and lives lived for art. We, happy band, have chosen the later persuasion.

Write for the love of your art. Someplace down the road, the money, the fame, they'll come, but by that time you won't be thinking in terms of money or fame.

I thought I might have to give up art, but I couldn't think of anything else to do.

Reading and writing... are exciting. The most exciting things I can think of. And now, as I reflect... I have to say that I've been lucky in that I'm amused by what I do - sufficiently amused.

I am never happier than when I have something to compose, for that, after all, is my sole delight and passion

I don't think I ever had a morning where I woke up and said I'm going to be a professional poet. I know I've always loved poetry, I've always loved writing poetry and I've always loved sharing poetry. I've also always known that I wanted that to somehow be a very large part of my life and I'm very fortunate that it's such a large part of my life.

I don't know any musician, successful or otherwise, that got in it to make money. Or writer, for that matter. You get into it because you love it.

It is not the act of making art that is painful. It is the desire to make something and not acting on it that causes pain....A day when I don't write is less happy. This is not discipline. It is affection, enthusiasm, adventure-any number of other words besides discipline.

I'm still in love with what I do, with the idea of making things up, so hours when I write always feel like very blessed hours to me.

There are all kinds of other things I could do, things I would probably like, but only acting would give me emotional fulfillment.

I just love what I do so much.

You might not make it to the top, but if you are doing what you love, there is much more happiness there than being rich or famous.

Study what you love, and you'll never have to work a day in your life. It'll be one great adventure.

Whatever I'm doing, whatever comes along, this music is something that I've always wanted to do.

If I hadn't been a singer, I might have been a photographer or an artist. But it's singing I love. I sing all the time, and I feel really good that I've expressed myself.