Carrie Brownstein Quotes

Writing is as big a part of my career as acting is, financially and time wise. So, yeah, I love it. That's all I wanted to do since I was young was be a writer. So that and acting are the two most important aspects of my career.

At a young age, I really wanted to make music and make my own sort of thing. I'm sure if it wasn't music, it would have been writing, or it would have been maybe painting. I just always had the drive to try and make something with my hands and to just pull something out of myself and shape it and see it in front of me, if that makes any sense.

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've mostly been focusing on writing, and I've really enjoyed not playing music. It will always be part of my life, but I don't feel the immediate need to be playing for people.

I love writing. I've pursued it with a passion.

I have to write and play. If I became an electrician tomorrow, I'd still come home at night and write songs.

Writing is what I do. It's what makes me tick.

I realized that music was the only thing I really thought about - music and writing.

Writing music is my one and only passion and joy.

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

In the deepest hour of the night I confess to myself three things; I would die if I was forbidden to write, forbidden to love, or forbidden to fashion....love each other, and celebrate the art and lifestyle of music.

My passion is more in songwriting than ... in being a star.

It's all about the music. For me, that's truly what I live for. Just music constantly. Always listening to, writing, or playing music. That's definitely me.

I am devoting some time to music. I'm finding a balance in my life right now so that when I'm not acting I'm really working on the music side of things... producing and writing and recording and also getting to do some live shows. It's a really exciting thing.

Writing music is like tasting the sky. It keeps me dreaming in color.

I have passion for music just like I have passion for wrestling, just like I have passion for creating and acting.

I had always been more interested in playing and improvising than sitting down at a desk and writing out a piece. I'd always found it more fun to play, and the other a little bit tedious. I always had trouble with the decisions.

I love to write music. I love melodies, I love playing guitar. I just do it for fun.

I was loving music, and loving art, painting, so I was considering those things, but I must say I dug acting as well.

I love to make music, I love to get tattoos...That's just what I love. If I wasn't getting paid I'd still do it.

The musings are the same I believe the fire to create burns so heavily that I am never far from a guitar or a fountain pen.

It takes more talent to write music, but it takes more courage to write lyrics.

I love music. That's my first love. I'm actually going to start working on that full-time very soon, but I love acting as well. It satisfies a different part of who I am. I love to pretend, to imagine, try new things, work with different people, and just see how far I can go.

My tunes and numbers are here. They have filled my years, the years when I refused to die. And in order to do that I wrote, I wrote, I wrote, at noon or 3:00 A.M. So as not to be dead.

I don't know if people realize how much I tour and how much time I spend writing, but I really enjoy it.