Raphael Saadiq Quotes

What matters is that you enjoy doing something creative. And I'm more and more seeing that as the key. That success and money or any sort of accolades are really not the experience of the journey. It's all about the process of building something.

Van Gogh never made a penny in his entire lifetime. He painted because it was his soul, his excitement. It was what aligned him with his Source of being. It's the same with me and writing.

The joy of working at something to find out what it means to me is what I grew up with.

I don't care about money. I really don't care. I just want to do what I do.

I get a great high from writing.

If people would like to come to my concerts I'd love them to come. And if they like the music that I make, I love that too. But I do not make music for other people. I make it to please myself.

It is not in life, but in art that self-fulfillment is to be found.

I like writing, but I write for self-improvement more than I do for money.

I'm not looking for career attention, for more success, more money. I'm just singing songs I chose because I love them.

If you get satisfaction out of playing music and entertaining people and it makes you feel right, then go for it.

I keep writing because it is deeply pleasurable to me.

To live for results would be to sentence myself to continuous frustration. My only sure reward is in my actions and not from them.

To make a living from doing something I love is fantastic. As long as people want to listen to me, I'll keep doing it. In fact, to tell you the truth, even if no one did want to listen to me, I'd still be doing it!

Do something because you really want to do it. If you're doing it just for the goal and don't enjoy the path, then I think you're cheating yourself.

I'm not always the first person to run out and see something I'm in. I don't know; for me, that's not why I did it. I did it because I wanted to act. I don't really think about the end result. I don't feel like I have to see it - for me, it already happened.

The gratification comes, for me, in the doing of it. And once I've done it, I can't do anything about it if it's good or if it's bad.

Even if we didn't make records, we would have done it on the side for fun. Like, some painters sell their work; others just keep it - they love to do it whether they get paid or not.

I create music for myself first of all because if I'm not happy with the music I create, I can't make anybody else happy.

I do theatre for my personal satisfaction and enjoyment.

Even if nobody was listening to it, I'd still be making music.

My art completes my life.

I want to be interested in the music I make until I die. That's more important to me than the size of my audience.

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

You know how you have that one thing you would do even if you're not getting paid to do it? That's what writing music is for me.

What inspires me in life? The idea that the work and the rewards and the process is the thing.