Peter Davison Quotes

It is important to make your own stuff. Even if you are not an actor, it is important to not stop involving yourself as a creative person.

Every good writer or filmmaker has something eating at them, right? That they can't quite get off their back. And so your job is to make your audience care about your obsessions.

The process of writing and creating and answering that very unique call inside yourself has nothing to do with agents and sales and all that stuff.

One last thing on objectives - I like to make things, create things, so that's probably been the primary objective all along, even before the ego objective - to make. To record. But why record... that gets back to the ego, a little. Oh, well. Making is good. I like to make things.

I sculpted for four or five years. Mostly for my own amusement, I decided to do a picture book, and that was kind of a turning point.

It was only after I began to write fiction that I found a way to connect with painting.

Making music is still what keeps a fire going on in me.

Everyone in Tool is interested in how we present our music. We write a group of songs that have a vibe, energy and feeling, and then we try to pick an image to capture that and communicate a feeling. We want something that adds to the connection with the audience.

Whatever I do is done out of sheer joy; I drop my fruits like a ripe tree. What the general reader or the critic makes of them is not my concern.

You know, it wasn't even that I'm a funny guy, I just loved stand-up comedy and I wanted to do it. It was one of the few things in my life that I knew I was going to be able to do, and I also felt as though I'd be able to do it the way I wanted to do it.

Any artist that's involved in their work is inevitably going to have a focus in what they do.

The best books come from someplace inside. You don't write because you want to, but because you have to.

Even if nobody cared, I'm still gonna make music.

But where there is no art show, I would still be painting.

I just create, that's what I do.

Being essentially a creator, I never set out to shock, always thinking about creating my work and not about the benefits it could produce.

The music itself could never take the place of my own passion in life.

There are times when I've inhaled my work. There are artworks still inside of me.

I'd like to think that even if I wasn't acting professionally, I would still be doing it for free. It helps me get through the day.

The curse of being a songwriter is that's you're always at work. I could look out the window right now and see something that would make me want to write.

The only reason I write is that I feel I have to. Being the creator of a project puts me in a much better position to do the things I want to do.

As an artist, my only relationship to my audience is through my work. That relationship is sacred to me.

Something different happened to me when I started to write music to images. It was a feeling of excitement and connection and a sense of being in the right place that I never had before.

Every artist wants his or her work to connect with someone. I think that's why people make art.

I don't make art to make money, I make art so I can make art.