Sophia Loren Quotes

Songwriting is like going to church. I'm connecting to something, and it's rewarding in really important ways. I don't need to share it with anyone to feel good about it.

From an early age, I knew I would be unhappy if I wasn't doing something creative.

Doing beautiful things is its own reward.

Van Gogh never made a penny in his entire lifetime. He painted because it was his soul, his excitement. It was what aligned him with his Source of being. It's the same with me and writing.

Make sure your desire to do what you're aspiring to do is deeper than just fame and being a celebrity.

The fame and the money and all that stuff that comes along with it is all great, but that's not the sole purpose of why I make music.

This isn't about the money. This is just for me. I love music.

Basically, what it comes down to is I love what I do. I don't do it for fame. I don't do it for money. I just love it.

I just love writing songs and singing them. People seem to enjoy them, and that's all you can really ask for. I didn't get into it to try to be a celebrity or whatever.

Every creativity has a motive. Either one does it for money, for fame, or for passion. My energies go out for passion.

I don't necessarily do anything just for the money. I do it for the passion and I do it for the love, because I'm still hungry. So if I want to do music, it's not necessarily motivated because of monetary value. It's more about the passion and the love, and I think that's where music should come from, the heart, not necessarily just to cash a check.

Stop wanting wealth and fame and start wanting instead to do something well about which you are passionate

I do not care for socially recognizable success. I only value that success which I can feel within me, which satisfies me, and which basically stems from self-knowledge.

Some writers, of course, simply write, as they feel they are driven to do, by outer/inner inspirations. If, after the work is written and, hopefully, published, others respond -- that is the Champagne. But we, or some of us, don't write for the Champagne. We write because we write.

I feel a passion for what we're trying to do.I mean, why does somebody who's old who's a writer keep writing? Because that's who they are.

I've never sought success in order to get fame and money; it's the talent and the passion that count in success.

A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.

Music has always been my back door to life. It is important for people to find something that excites them. I like the concept that if you do what excites you, you will be rewarded generously, whatever form reward takes, which is not necessarily money.

Money is a good thing and it's obviously useful, but to work only for money or fame would never interest me.

I think all those people I did stories about measured their own success by the joy their work was giving them.

Do what you love, and you will find the way to get it out to the world.

I've got something to live for, because I always wanted to be an artist; I always wanted to be famous.

Talent is always more interesting - ambition is not interesting. If you have talent, you have to find ways of expressing it, but you may not be a success in the world's terms.

Don't worry about writing a book or getting famous or making money. Just lead an interesting life.

I've never been driven by fame or money or anything like that. It's never been part of my psyche.