Lil Xan Quotes

I started out doing music videos and photography, and I always loved writing.

I knew I wanted to be creative but didn't know how.

No, I do a bunch of things to entertain myself. I paint, I make music, I take photographs.

Maybe I'll paint, do photography, just something else. I can see that.

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.

In a lot of the art world, you have to present yourself as you know what you're doing at a young age. Music gave me another outlet. The 'no wave' bands were such an inspiration; it felt so free - once you start doing it, it's hard to stop. But I can't get away from art. It comes back around. I wouldn't be true to myself if I didn't pursue it.

Music is a really great creative tool for me, for different roles.

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 play music, I paint - these things come from your depths.

Drawing and visual pursuits were first. Music came and found me in a way. Really, what it's about is creative problem solving, and music is a lot more an expression of that than painting is for me.

Music is the doorway that has led me to drawing, photography, and writing.

I always wanted to do something creative, but as much as I'm creative, it's in a really hard-core, right-brained way. For me, painting doesn't do it for me. There's no constraint.

I would do a sort of violence to myself if I didn't express myself in the directly creative ways of writing, both words and music.

This creating? It's my passion.

I always dreamed, when I started writing music, to find a way of immersing yourself in it.

As a teenager I started painting and playing guitar...Music has been my playmate, my lover, and my crying towel...This song ("Until It's Time for You To Go") popped into my head while I was falling in love with someone I knew couldn't stay with me. The words are about honesty and freedom inside the heart.

Since age seven, I've been composing and have never stopped composing, yet, the creative process is as elusive to me as it has ever been.

Art gives me the freedom I don't have when I make music.

I think of myself as a little kid, and I had a wild imagination, but it was something that was encouraged and supported, which helped steer me into the arts.

You know, I had the music baskets and the writing basket. And I had the acting. And those eggs just hatched first, and the others were slow to incubate.

Writing is my profession. Photography is my hobby.

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.

I can't just sit down and make a song in a day. It's only possible if you focus on the music and not the sound.

The only thing that's ever made sense to me has been sitting in the house by myself making music.

I only want to make music because I have a passion for it.