Craig Bierko Quotes

So I don't think of myself as just a musician at all, I think of myself as an artist.

I've always been creating my whole life, you know. I've just had a need to create, whether it was sculpting or writing or directing. It's just ever since I was a kid, I don't know.

From the time I was three or four years old, I drew all the time. Drew all the time, every second.

I'd want to read the stories that I'd written, I'd want to show the drawings that I made. That was just purely natural. So I knew I wanted to go into the arts in some way and that I'd want to show that work in some way.

When I sit down to write, I consider myself an artist.

I knew I wanted to be creative but didn't know how.

I'm a singer, a writer and an actress - when I find something that I feel good enough about doing.

I've never been one to want to be the center of attention and be put up on stages every night. That's just not really my personality. I'm comfortable with it now, but my real passion is being creative.

When I act, I come away drained. When I write, I come away energized.

Art gives me the freedom I don't have when I make music.

For me, drawing is a question of death and life. Every day I draw, I write, I do something.

Artists need to express.

Writing is my profession. Photography is my hobby.

People ask me to describe myself, but it's a very personal thing. You don't feel comfortable.

Everybody has ideas. The vital question is, what do you do with them? My rock musician sons shape their ideas into music. My sister takes her ideas and fashions them into poems. My brother uses his ideas to help him understand science. I take my ideas and turn them into stories.

Photography, painting or poetry - those are just extensions of me, how I perceive things; they are my way of communicating.

Art was something I could do better. It gave me a sense of self.

In middle school, I started to draw, and my pencil sketches were huge. They were these 4ft by 3ft drawings, and I got a lot of attention for that, so that was very validating. But I didn't start cartooning until I was in college.

I always thought I was going to be an artist. All I ever did was draw. I only ever turned to writing because I couldn't find somebody to write the kind of stuff I wanted to do. That just spiraled out of control.

I'm a writer who just happens to draw.

I'm still very sure that painting is one of the most basic human capacities, like dancing and singing, that make sense, that stay with us, as something human.

I was blown away by being able to color. Then I started to draw... bringing a blank white canvas to life was fascinating.

Life obliges me to do something, so I paint.

Well, painting is the one thing I do, that is just me. It's me and easels, and the pencils. And as long as I don't drool too much over the canvas, the colors come out pretty good. And it's a chance to express all that I've got inside, that I sometimes keep hidden. And I think that's why I paint big broad, wide open landscapes.

As long as I can remember, I was drawing or trying to create something.