Iman Shumpert Quotes

Every day I paint, and every day I compose music.

When I can focus on something like guitar or painting, I do. I started painting people I admire, like Kerouac, Bob Dylan, Nelson Algren, Marlon Brando, Patti Smith, my girl, my kids.

When I was a teenager, I loved photography and writing.

I painted. I wanted to be a painter. I sang.

I've always loved writing.

I was trying to be a writer, and I was kind of getting sidetracked, so I started doing cartoons as a form of expression.

Photography, painting or poetry - those are just extensions of me, how I perceive things; they are my way of communicating.

Some people take pictures; I write songs.

The day the producers aren't minting money, or the fans are done with me and, most of all, I as a person get bored of acting, I will stop and pursue my other interests. There is a lot to do: painting, writing, direction.

I have many creative outlets. I sing, I like music, I like art, I paint, I draw. I like buying art. I read a lot, too. I love books. And I'm working on a clothing line, too.

I love to write, to sing, to make music. Not to act: I am horrible.

I'm a writer. An amateur photographer. An actor.

I'd want to read the stories that I'd written, I'd want to show the drawings that I made. That was just purely natural. So I knew I wanted to go into the arts in some way and that I'd want to show that work in some way.

When you're young and creative, you don't know how to channel all that creative energy, so sometimes it goes to the wrong places.

I was writing lyrics since I was nine years old, so by age 15, I was feeling pretty confident about my talent.

Ever since I can remember, I drew, and visual arts have been my main way to express myself. I like dancing, although I've never done that very seriously. It's something I'd like to explore more.

I just got a new manager. He's like, "So what do you want to do with the deejay thing?" I'm like, "The deejay thing for me is more my hobby." It's great when you can supplement your income, when you have a weekly or something, it's fun. It's really a hobby, because I don't want it to take away from what I do, which is emceeing.

When I'm not working on a children's book, I'm painting abstract paintings. That's probably the most joyous thing for me as an artist. But I do love children's books.

But those who cannot write, and those who can, All rhyme, and scrawl, and scribble, to a man.

I was writing tons of music in my spare time. I might be on location somewhere, and I'd go home and I'd have my guitar and my little keyboard or something and write music. Or if I was at home, on my piano. I've always been a late bloomer with a lot of things, just in general, so I think this was something that needed to come to fruition in this particular way.

You don't have to be as good a writer to write a song; it's a very different process to writing straight prose. To learn how to write prose takes a lot of years of practice.

Other times I say: I would very much like to try to do something with this music, but after playing for a few minutes, I have to break off.

I paint when I cannot photograph.

Poetry is a mug's game.

I've always had a really great time being in movies and writing music when I get home. The more creative I am, the more it feeds into other creative aspects of my life.