Ricky Gervais Quotes

I just want to sing, I want to work on my music, I want to make my movies, that's all I want to do.

I've been singing since I was two. Music was my first passion and I love writing, singing, creating and being creative.

I'm pretty much living my dream job, but one day I would love to dedicate more time to writing and performing my own music.

All I ever wanted was to perform, make music, make videos.

Many writers secretly long to be performers. You always get the 'if you weren't a writer' question. I would be a back-up singer, to stand in the back and go like 'do, do, do.'

When I was younger, I always wanted to be either a pianist or a classical singer, and when I discovered songwriting, it was like a new portal had been opened.

I'd hear a tune in my head and the words would come. And then, very suddenly it just stopped. It seemed too stilted to try and learn how to write a song, to go to round robins and to learn things from other people on how to write a song. So I just stopped and did other things.

I always wanted to play music, but my family was more interested in handing me paints and markers. Art was always my favorite subject in school, and I can remember staying up all night drawing as a small child. My expression via art was extremely strong as I grew and hasn't stopped.

I want to make great songs.

I tried to stick with what I knew best, which is writing rock n' roll songs and melodies. I am as passionate as I was when I was 20.

I guess it would be if I wanted to, just lay back and predominantly write songs when I can't go on a stage anymore.

I feel happy about the songs I've written. I'm a great lover of the craft of songwriting, and I sure admire it in other people when I see it - past and present. I feel comfortable with what I have accomplished. I feel happy to be able to work in that environment, and that I have a lot of songs left to be written, somewhere.

I loved the guitar, and I had all of this music in my head. My passion for the guitar and the ideas for what I could create musically were equal. So that's where I was.

When I see things that are inspiring, I must write a song about it. Some people make a t-shirt or slap something on a wall with paint, but I must make music and freestyle rap.

I have been writing songs since I was 9 years old, so writing has and always will be my first love and passion.

I always sang, I always acted, I always played.

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

When I was a kid, I wrote music - from the age of 11 until the age of 18.

Music is my life. It is sacred.

I'll be a nun, raise my daughter, and make albums.

Music plays a very important role in my life. I'm a frustrated musician. I play the drums.

The truth is, I initially became a singer-songwriter while still in my teens because it was the only way to guarantee that somebody on earth would sing the songs I was writing. Since then, I've performed just about everywhere: rock clubs, concerts halls, arenas, TV.

I'd like to be writing songs for other people - I just like writing songs.

I started writing songs at age 15.

I started playing piano when I was 6. And I knew that wanted to be involved in that form of expression, whether it was through music, or acting, or dancing, or painting, or writing.