K. D. Lang Quotes

I believe sometimes we aren't always in charge of everything that we do creatively. We submit to things as we're going on our own journey.

I get a sentence, an idea, an image, and I start. I don't know anything beyond it. I follow it.

And I don't have any specific steps to take because I don't start the same way every time. But there is a knowing when it's enough and you can leave it alone.

Everything that I've ever made in my life is from my instinct.

I work instinctively. If I like something, I do it.

You have to - you have to allow something to tell you what it wants to be.

Don't use your brain to play it, let your feelings guide your fingers.

I am a slave to the rhythm. I am a palette. I just go with the moment. You've got to do it that way because if you're thinking, you're dead. Performing is not about thinking; it's about feeling.

I start a picture and I finish it. I don't think about art while I work. I try to think about life.

I think making a movie or a record, the best things happen by accident - and those end up being the magic. Every time I've followed my gut it's been better than when I've tried to do what I was supposed to do.

Most songs I write are spur-of-the-moment-type things. I have to be spontaneous. If not, songwriting can bore me. There is no pre-design or idea of what I am going to do when I go into the studio. It's all like that for me. I could go in and write two or three songs in an eight-hour session. You can't over-think songs. You just can't.

Artwork is not like a commercial business; there is no such thing as a schedule for art. You can't hurry art.

I write songs, and I sing them. I never formulated a plan; I can't tell anyone else how to do this. But it feels right, so I just kind of enjoy it and get on with it.

I used to look at composing music as problem solving. But as I get older, it's not about problem solving anymore. There are no solutions, because there are no problems. You just turn the tap and it flows out.

I follow my interests pretty - I don't like the word 'intuitively.' I follow them in a kind of natural way, without questioning them too much.

I never know what I'm going to put on the canvas. The canvas paints itself. I'm just the middleman.

As an idea occurs to me, I'll either follow it or not, but I'm more instinctive than master-planner about stuff.

The artist discards all theories, both his own and those of others. He forgets everything when he is in front of his canvas.

I don't know, my music has always just come from where the wind blew me. Like where I'm at during a particular moment in time.

There are no rules and regulations for perfect composition. If there were we would be able to put all the information into a computer and would come out with a masterpiece. We know that's impossible. You have to compose by the seat of your pants.

Choosing to write a play is some kind of surrender. I don't make an outline. I sit and work, and suddenly the door opens, and out it comes.

The creative process is a process of surrender, not control.

I do read music, but I prefer playing from the heart.

Melody is pure intuition. I don't use any thinking brain when I do that. That's totally in the zone.

Sometimes you just do things and let your natural self become a part of what you're doing.