Reggie Watts Quotes

I only do this because I'm having fun. The day I stop having fun, I'll just walk away.

I love doing photo shoots and interviews. I never feel like I'm wasting my time or I never feel tired. It's all just been fun.

If you get anything creative going, then the work and play thing is the same thing, I feel.

Idleness allows you to turn a situation from boredom to pleasure.

When inspiration does not come, I go for a walk, go to the movie, talk to a friend, let go... The muse is bound to return again, especially if I turn my back!

What we call creative work, ought not to be called work at all, because it isn't. I imagine that Thomas Edison never did a day's work in his last fifty years.

All I can say is, hey, if you have fun doing what you do, if you have fun playing soccer, the creativity is just going to come as time goes on.

I haven't written an awful lot recently, but I think I probably will start again very shortly. Being so much on the road, when you have a couple of weeks off, you're likely to avoid sitting at the piano, and taping, and giving yourself more work to do.

There are people who can achieve huge success in life, while adding a bit of fun and a splash of colour to this increasingly grey world.

'Inspiration' is a word used by people who aren't really doing anything.

My motivation is to be creative and have fun. You want to do something that keeps you on your toes the rest of your life and keeps you busy.

When we go out there, we have fun, but we get to work, and I think we're at our best when we're having fun. Having fun is key.

I'm a great listener - I play records all the time at home. And I play guitar as a hobby. So inspiration has never been a big problem for me, but motivation can be a bit difficult sometimes.

Man, at the end of the day, it's just a game. And the way I look at it, when I have fun, that's when I play my best basketball.

Working with someone who's really passionate about it is great, because you become passionate, and then it's fun; it's not work anymore.

I just like to do the fun stuff. If I'm not having fun with it, I'm not going to do it for the rest of my life.

Idleness - a job that you have to go to, but not necessarily do anything - is the poet's friend.

I'm really inspired by my friends. I'm psyched to ride with them, usually, and they're really fun to hang out with.

If it's not fun, you are not doing it right.

I came to writing kind of late. I was an engineer, and the one thing I've learned is that you have to steer a project in the direction of the maximum fun for you. You could say lively energy, or you have to try to be intrigued. Basically, if you were a musician and you were playing joylessly, nobody would want to hear you.

What work I have done I have done because it has been play. If it had been work I shouldn't have done it.

Nearly all the things I do that are of any merit at all start off just being good fun.

I don't want to work, I want to bang on the drum all day.

I like to go to the clubs. As long as the environment permits, and it's not too knuckleheadish, I'm there, I go to the club. Because that's where you get inspiration from.

I think the best cure is to stop doing the thing that you think you should be doing and go and have a bit of fun in another medium, maybe other crazy things.