Toyin Odutola Quotes

I'm just an entertainer, man. I don't like to pigeonhole myself to anything. I love to do it all.

I like to improvise.

Fiction is a house with many stately mansions, but also one in which it is wise, at least sometimes, to swing from the chandeliers.

I love improvisation.

I just like being all over the place and writing whatever comes to mind. Having the tools? It's such a gift.

I'm as much my own master as anyone can be, without being the master of others. I can write anywhere - all I need is a couple of hours of solitude and a computer, and I can write a chapter. Since my work is portable, I can live anywhere I like.

I think the best part about music is that you can do it anywhere at any time and it's always with you.

I love the guitar because you can bring it everywhere, and you can start a jam wherever you are.

We're really lucky because we have a portable studio, which enables us to work wherever we like. There is some extra work involved in setting everything up, but you can find a lot of magic and inspiration in being free to go somewhere completely different.

I'll take any lightweight.

Ballet was so structured. I'd been craving something that could guide me.

You think it's all written, but it's not. There's always another way to twist those three chords around.

There are no rules in filmmaking

It gives you more freedom, the digital camera.

Dance means so much to me. It's always been such a huge part of my life.

Above all, we are coming to understand that the arts incarnate the creativity of a free people.

Never own more than you can carry in both hands at a dead run.

I always like using different muscles, you can take that however you want. But doing something once a year is fantastic, I highly recommended it if you can do it. It's a wonderful thing, it's very freeing and I can put a lot of energy and attention onto it and it's something I love doing.

I need to sing and I love to travel.

To be able to play somebody that says and does pretty much whatever he wants is great.

You can't have creativity unless you leave behind the bounded, the fixed, all the rules

Being a broadcaster, man, you just sort of paint from a blank canvas, in a way.

Writing music is like tasting the sky. It keeps me dreaming in color.

If you knew it all it would not be creation but dictation.

You become an actor because you don't want to do the same thing all the time.