Ryan McCartan Quotes

People ask me all the time which I would prefer doing more, but I honestly can't say. When I'm filming, I'm like, 'No, this is my favorite,' and when I'm writing music and recording and performing, it's like, 'This is definitely it.'

What part of people is resistant to an artist doing more than one thing? Is it somehow perceived as greedy? Anyone who has that weird volition to become an actor probably has a weird volition to do lots of other creative things - to write, to play music, to paint, to cook.

Both singing and acting are so rewarding that I couldn't pick between the two.

My first love is the sport, and it will always be my priority.

I think most people have creative ideas and have very strange, unorthodox impulses of things that they can do with their lives. I've had many of these over the years, but I decided the more important question was, 'When did I start calling this art?'

I don't paint anymore. I haven't since I abandoned it at 19, in order to begin writing seriously.

I love what I do and the music I make and the bands I've done, especially Fall Out Boy. I also love what I love, and I don't care if other people like it.

I think you always, as an artist, feel like you would like to be more and more specific about your intent and your interests.

I think maybe one day I'll go back to music. I don't know. I don't know if sometimes you lose a passion or you don't lose it, it becomes more personal and less about sharing it with everyone.

I don't feel like I'm an artist with a capital 'A.'

If I can be doing something in the arts till the day I die. I would be very, very happy.

I think it's really important for actors to have another creative outlet, or for anyone, really.

As I create art, it is like a love affair. My days go by loving what I do.

I realized early on that if I became an actor, I could play a writer and a sculptor and a painter and be all the things you just don't have time to be in your lifetime. I could get to learn about all of them.

I can't even call it work. I'm a creative-a-holic. I love the tearing into new material.

I wanted to be what I am. All my life. A musician and an actor.

An artist's love for what they create is what creates love.

Fashion is my lover on the side, but I am married to music.

There comes a point when you have to be more than an actor, and doing something else that means a lot to me has actually made me a stronger actor. It's stimulated something else in my brain and heart.

Most importantly, I don't do music for people to want to be a singer, actor, or dancer. I do it because I love it and I want to show others you can accomplish goals.

I have put my heart and soul in 'Baaz.'

It's like I'm basically an artist. I'm no different from a painter who sits there and loves what he does.

For me, as I was growing up, I studied architecture, I was into music, and I always felt that there was a gap between the things that I loved and consumed and who made them and how they made them.

I think what I do is borderline art. Most people who do borderline art have to have other jobs, so I'm very grateful.

I went mainstream in a major way with the song "Let's Dance." And what I found I had done was put a box around myself. It was very hard for people to see me as anything other than the person in the suit who did "Let's Dance," and it was driving me mad - because it took all my passion for experimenting away.