Frank Black Quotes

A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.

I've always been creating, no one had to teach me how to create, I always made things.

I work to drive the awe away, yet awe impels the work.

If you don't follow your dream, who will?

I don't pick subjects as much as they pick me.

The music is a personal expression, like art. It is something that you like doing that comes from within, and is an expression that comes from God. That is why artists are beautiful and why people who copy are not really artistic.

The best books come from someplace inside. You don't write because you want to, but because you have to.

It is certain that at certain times talent entirely overcomes thought or poetry.

I need to push myself. I'm not saying that I just want to do anything that's shocking, but when you have that combination of a script that's really beautiful and extremely shocking, it's exciting for me.

All art stems from a place of alienation. Intimate and alone. Most people are oppressed by the opinion of others, but I was not that way. I was afraid of the repercussions of not doing what I was told to do, what I was called to do by a creator.

The music itself could never take the place of my own passion in life.

My best songs come from a place outside myself.

Do not think that I have stopped painting, for at any moment, I am liable to paint a good picture.

I'm usually the one who creates most of my work. I have a lot of different ideas that I want to do, so I'm always like, 'Get on it, girl.'

I don't write for the money. I write because something in me is constantly compelled.

Nothing can motivate me any more than I'm already motivated. It just can't happen. Me being motivated was never a factor. Never.

I've always had an appetite for creating in some capacity.

It seems like your dreams are your own spirit, your own soul, telling you what you're meant to do and getting you psyched up with the idea of thinking that it was your idea all along.

I'm constantly writing music and keeping myself busy somehow.

It's not about motivation. It's about what's driven inside of you.

I think motivation is a thing that is inside of you.

I never struggle for motivation, that's for sure. Motivation is something that burns within.

When you receive a script and it leaps out at you and it's breathing with its own heartbeat - I suppose when you read something like that it's not a choice of whether you do it or don't. It feels like it chooses you, so you just do it.

There is no editor or agent or person with a sack of money that will magically come down and give you motivation to make your thing.

I think an artist who has it in their heart to do or say something, they'll say it. It's not something that's mandatory, but it will come out.