Derek Sivers Quotes

I just want to sing, I want to work on my music, I want to make my movies, that's all I want to do.

Painting and writing are solitary arts.

If I wasn't an actress I'd definitely want to do something in the arts and something that was very creative.

Some jobs you do - maybe you don't - are jobs that pay mortgages and some are art and I don't care about not being paid on those.

I always liked creativity, whether it was to draw or sew - any creative assignment I was getting from school, or just on my own.

I found that it wasn't so oddball to like music and poetry and visual arts, they're kindred spirits.

I've learned to sell my music, I've learned to direct, I've written screenplays... All of this fulfilled my artistic needs but also put food on the table.

Painting and music were the only things I worked at industriously and faithfully.

I was a writer for hire. I wrote to pay the bills.

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.

I majored in industrial design/painting, but haven't had time to exercise that creativity.

You know, I like playing music and playing guitar, and I like to draw, so I thought I would end up just probably barely making a living, or probably having to have some other job, but being involved in one of those things that I really like to do. But that didn't work out like that.

I have my writing and acting and producing and directing, and my younger brother has his music and his acting.

Acting is secondary - I don't feel like it's going to stick around because it's not something I want to do forever. My art has always been my top priority and I have far more experience in that field than I do in film.

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

I've only been interested in the artistic side of life.

Ballet might be too formal of a title for the type of dance I do, but I love to dance. I love to draw and paint; I do ceramics and photography. I'm interested in a lot of creative stuff.

I think they can co-exist. You don't have to put one down for another. I've been bitten by the acting bug, and where it takes me, it won't take away from the music.

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.

I just enjoy working with really wonderful actors and amazing creative people and I hope to keep doing that, no matter where.

I've been very lucky to have been able to act, write and direct and not have to choose just the one thing.

I want to do television, film, music and designing. I want to do it all!

I have a very, very creative family.

I am lucky because I do fine art, and that is half of my living. And then illustration provides the other half.

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