Josh Holloway Quotes

When I'm singing, I'm another person. I can be really free, in the sense that I can do whatever I want.

Music means freedom to me. But in acting you can pretend to be someone else and I like that.

I need theatre for my equilibrium because in theatre, the actors don't care so much about image, about celebrity; you are more independent.

I listen to music, I read scripts, and I know pretty intuitively if I can unlock it in a way. It's actually very liberating when you understand that not everything is for you.

When you're an artist, all you're trying to do is self-express.

See, when I paint, it is an experience that, at its best, is transcending reality.

My writing was liberated once I abandoned acting.

I'm feeling more and more thoughts that aren't songs, just reflections. I'm always been very shy and in some ways a prisoner in one language and I feel that the liberation of creativity has to be in all senses. So I've been deciding to publishing something very simple but very small at the same time, nothing egocentric.

I think the idea of art kills creativity.

Because there is so little room for expression otherwise, a lot of people love cinema because they find it a way of expressing themselves.

It was liberating to do comedy. It felt like playing in a jazz band.

At any one time, I'll have 30 to 40 pieces going on in the studio, so this is not economically driven at all.

Writing is a form of licensed madness.

In a way, I envy the freedom artists have. Artists can push themselves beyond their limits, in pursuit of their ideas and their vision, even if they are inhabited by demons that can also play tricks on them.

It's one of the most liberating things I experience in writing - letting yourself get rid of a gesture or character or plot point that always nagged, even if you couldn't admit to yourself that it did.

Acting is such a personal thing, which is weird because at the same time it's not. It's for the consumption of other people. But in terms of creative outlets and expressing yourself, it's just the most extreme version of that that I've ever found. It's like running, it's exertion.

I feel constricted if I become too much aware of the act of making. Liberty is lost and instead of an instinctual lyrical expression the whole thing becomes arid.

I find singing as somebody else very liberating, it just frees me up.

Aishwarya, my parent's daughter, has been brought up with enough values inculcated where I will use my discretion in my choices. At the same time, I recognize I am an actor, I am an artist, and if I feel the need to be liberated and do the kind of work I need to do, I will.

The artist writes, paints, sings or dances the burden of some idea or feeling off his mind.

I feel very free and very happy to be a composer.

When people like your music because it has vulnerable honesty, and you're able to comfortably admit to flaws and imperfections, then that's the most liberating thing about being an artist.

Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.

Artists today think of everything they do as a work of art. It is important to forget about what you are doing - then a work of art may happen.

I don't even think about maintaining a relevance. I just think about what do I want to paint, what am I gonna do now, what am I gonna do later.