Sue Perkins Quotes

I used to split my time between writing, music and painting. I would work on a book and then abandon it, start a band, do an album, quit music, then do a gallery show. Eventually I decided to give writing a serious shot.

When I'm not filming, I do rock n' roll; when I'm not doing rock n' roll, I do filming.

I love working with an orchestra, but there are many ways to make music.

I don't think I would ever quit acting, but there are other things I am interested in. I wanted to be an architect, and I wish I knew more about landscaping.

Music is the career I'm lucky enough to get paid for, but I have other desires and passions.

I am the pianist of the duo, although Aleksey does pretty good... you know we've written more and more stuff where he has to play the piano. But you know, to be very honest, I actually went into music because I wanted to be a composer and a conductor. And piano was just one of the ways to get into that.

I think they can co-exist. You don't have to put one down for another. I've been bitten by the acting bug, and where it takes me, it won't take away from the music.

The thing with food is that you can give 20 people the same recipe and the same ingredients, and somebody's going to make it better than somebody else, and that's the creativity of it. It's like music. You could have a bunch of people playing the same piece, and somebody's gonna play it better.

I would like to be known as an 'artist'. Whether that be music, acting, sketching, cooking, whatever. I'm interested in all of those things.

I wanted to be ballerina, be in a band, then in drama.

I enjoy music and cooking and cartoons and many other things.

If I would not be able to create music, I would create art or something else. Perhaps cooking.

Acting is a grind, just like music is a grind. Sometimes it takes longer than what you can give.

If not a chef, I would have been a painter maybe. I have interest in painting, and I do it well.

For me, the main goal is loving music and experiencing the great music-making with the orchestra, which is the great reason why I conduct, and that is the main goal.

I equate composing with orchestrating. I think my music in terms of an orchestra.

The Roots want to dip our toes into everything in the arts.

For a long time, I thought I'd be a physio if I wasn't a sportsman. At one point, I wanted to be an inventor, and I'd come up with little schemes.

I can kind of make money through my other passion, which is brewing, and that's a pretty stable business, and it would free up my timeslot to take roles that I really liked and that I thought were interesting.

I love to cook; I love to bake. It's, like, my favorite thing besides acting.

I'm not into just one thing; I always felt like I had to have my hand in everything revolving around what I do, whether it's directing videos, making beats, making music, performing.

I had a nice talk with my parents and told them I was going to give singing a go. I will go back to studying, but I'd love to get a degree in writing.

This is one of my favorite things to do, working with a symphonic accompaniment, because I don't sing - and this is as close as I will come to singing.

I write music.

I'd be a chef if I wasn't a musician, that's for sure.