Britney Spears Quotes

I wish to share and pass down some of my generation's traits, and encourage young people to create their own art, music, and literature.

I'll make music, whether or not anyone is listening, for the rest of my life. It's a natural form of expression for me, the same way I draw and write and sing.

I've been doing African dance all my life.

I think it's restrictive to typecast myself as a novelist because I enjoy other forms of expression. I love literature and I love cinema.

The way that I've always gone about making music, the rule of thumb, has just been to make what I love.

I love music, and I love acting, so if I can just live and be able to do those two things, I can be happy, you know?

Whether it's music or acting, that creativity all comes from the same source.

Art and music is part of what it means to be a human being. And if you're neglecting that, you're basically ignoring a huge side of the brain and a huge side of what it means to be human.

I wasn't a ballet baby. My first dance class was in an outdoor pavilion when I was three. It was called 'creative movement.' The teacher gave us chiffon scarves in beautiful colors. She turned on some music and said, 'Now go dance.' So for me, dance has always been about self-expression.

There are stories that people don't want to talk about that brought this music through.

What can a pencil do for all of us? Amazing things. It can write transcendent poetry, uplifting music, or life-changing equations; it can sketch the future, give life to untold beauty, and communicate the full-force of our love and aspirations.

Music has always been profoundly important to me.

You have to open your mind. I like the ability to express myself in a deep way. It's the closest music to our humanity - it's like a folk music that rises up out of a culture.

Music isn't only a profession.

I'm 38 years old and Limp Bizkit is just something I do. If I was a painter, it would just be a type of painting I make.

Throughout my life I have taken detours in acting and writing, but art remains my abiding passion.

My focus is anything that allows me to express myself. Rap, dance, photography. Those are my forms of expression.

Music makes your soul feel amazing while you're performing it.

Music, art, theater. I'm just a big fan of beauty.

My career? I never think of it as a 'career.' Art and music and all those things that I'm creating are just part of me.

I want to continue to produce film, television, and theater, and to make the most amazing music that I've made in my life.

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.

When you talk or write or film, you work with the music inside you, the music that formed you. Different generations have different musics in them, so whatever they do, it's going to come out differently, and it will speak in beats of their own generation.

I do want to make music that people love, but I also want to make music that I love. I know I can't please everyone with anything I do, so I don't think too much about how other people are going to take things.

Music is hugely important to me.