Reggie Watts Quotes

You know, when I was younger I was into all kinds of art - drawing, painting, all that stuff. But I played drums, played piano forever.

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.

If you were to say to me that I couldn't paint, I would write. If I couldn't write, I would be a set designer. As long as I'm creating something, I'm happy.

Music is just kind of an expression of who I am. It's what I do.

My parents were always supportive of me in terms of expressing myself artistically. Art, musical instruments, singing - whatever I did, they were just really supportive.

My personality is more the personality of a painter.

I think I took after my parents. Using music as one of my main ways of expression just felt natural.

Most of me expressing myself comes through my music more than what I wear.

When it comes to music, it's my clothes, it's my guitar, it's my voice, it's my song.

I've been singing since I was two. Music was my first passion and I love writing, singing, creating and being creative.

My music is the most 'me' thing about me. Everything is in my music.

I think there's a deep impulse in most humans to do creative stuff, whether that's music or art, photography or writing. Most people at some point in their life say they want to do something creative - they want to be an actor, a director, a writer, a poet, a painter or whatever.

When you're an artist, all you're trying to do is self-express.

Music has always been a part of me and art in general. I love visual art as well.

I love classical music and have been playing violin since I was seven. Music helps me to express feelings in a way words often cannot.

Everybody has ideas. The vital question is, what do you do with them? My rock musician sons shape their ideas into music. My sister takes her ideas and fashions them into poems. My brother uses his ideas to help him understand science. I take my ideas and turn them into stories.

Guitar is the best form of self-expression I know. Everything else, and I'm just sort of tripping around, trying to figure my way through life.

I've always been creating my whole life, you know. I've just had a need to create, whether it was sculpting or writing or directing. It's just ever since I was a kid, I don't know.

I was always struck by how Picasso had no interest in music.

I do believe everyone on this earth is an artist - some people more than others. But I do believe we are all artists in a certain way. We all have unique abilities. There are people who are meant to make it their life, and that is a different kind of person who would choose to be on that path.

Whether it's music or acting, that creativity all comes from the same source.

No one was creating and I always wanted to be created on.

I like men who paint or write or do something creative.

I play guitar and write music, and that's definitely a huge part of my life, but it's my personal thing that I have for me.

There's no rule that says you have to make records constantly, like clockwork, to continue being who you are.