Larry Norman Quotes

I was very disappointed that so much of the work I did on The Haunted Mansion didn't arrive in the final cut.

I don't feel comfortable doing interviews. My profession is music, and writing songs. That's what I do. I like to do it, but I hate to talk about it.

If you want to get into the creative world, you have to just keep flogging away even when nobody's paying attention. Because then when somebody finally does pay attention, it's certainly a lot more interesting when you have a ton of stuff to show.

I enjoy singing the songs a certain way, but I don't even know how the writing even began. To me, it's work that is kind of invisible; it's a weird kind of work to have because you're not working, but it's not not work. Formulating your thoughts and making a melody that's catchy enough for people to listen to what you're saying is really hard!

My life, at least, is divided between writing and performing and mixtures of the two.

Some people can sit down and write a song, but they can't go on stage like I can.

All invisible from where we stand the connections come to pass, and though too strong to comprehend they affect us not the less.

We don't think about it, but it has a tremendous effect. But these are things you don't see right in front of your eyes. You need to think about them a little, to see what the consequences are.

Most of the time when you do a job, a play or a film, you're wondering, "Will there be an audience?"

When I'm traveling to promote my book, I feel like an artful impostor. What I really am is when I'm in my (painter's) studio and when I'm writing. With actors, it's the same thing. They're kind of artful impostors in public. When you get to know them, they're different people.

For me, being a writer is not an altered state. It's very ponderous, and very - it's like being a shoemaker.

I've done a ton of theater work and dramatic work, but nobody really knows me that way.

I'm interested in doing anything and everything that I can to squeeze the creativity out of my brain. I guess I'm kind of a performance rat, that's what I want to do, I love being on stage if I'm not on a set. I just love putting creativity into a performance.

A writer is a maker, not a man of action: his private life is of no concern to anybody but himself, his family and his friends.

Those titles, Executive Producer or actor, are unimportant. I always try to approach my role as an artist. The first thing you want to do, that you attempt to do as an artist, is to have some sort of input into the material that you are working on. That is how my process begins; I say to myself: "I want to do this kind of work or I want to do that kind of work."

What no wife of a writer can ever understand...is that a writer is working when he's staring out the window.

I never had an aversion because I was active in the drama club. If I had that aversion I certainly wouldn't put myself in the position of being on stage. Of course, in the drama club you're hiding behind a character.

A poet who reads his verse in public may have other nasty habits.

All creative work, all life in a sense, is a cri de coeur.

The live show allows me to transcend myself, because it's not about me anymore. The writing process is very much about me but then the live show is not. They feel really different.

For me the visual is just as important as the music. I would never record without my red lipstick. It was my way of getting into character, sort of like Method singing.

Nobody tells people who are beginners - and I really wish somebody had told this to me - that all of us who do creative work... get into it because we have good taste.

If you are any kind of an artist, then validation . . . can be a result, but you're going to do the work anyway.

A writer’s life is in his work, and that is the place to find him.

I got to focus on my performance - learning how to perform is something I've been working on both personally and professionally.