Ethan Canin Quotes

I think all art is about control - the encounter between control and the uncontrollable.

There are occasions that I love to be fashionable and enjoy, you know? But the work day of a mother doesn't include a hair making team or any consideration of your shoe.

You have to feed your soul and spirit, but you also have to be a professional and remember the business that you're in. Everything is not your passion project.

I'm an artist but I'm also a real person. I have bills like everyone else.

Somewhere there is an ancient enmity between our daily life and the great work. Help me in saying it, to understand it.

Art gives a sense of order, life is basically chaotic, and there's a tension between them. A sense of order comes from chaos and contains a bit of it, but it's the sense of order that is important in a work of art.

I always have days off before and after I go to the studio. That's really important for me that I know that I have days off after, 'cause then I can give my everything when I'm in the studio. I love being in the studio and being able to think, 'Okay, I'm not doing anything tomorrow.'

Like most working moms, my life is a constant juggling act.

If we were all happy and getting along every second of the day, we'd probably make some schmaltzy record.

When I'm not working out, it's important to me to express the creative, girly side of my personality.

One thing I didn't want to believe in is that I couldn't have a family and do music at the same time.

I think it's harder when you get older and you start having children because you've got to get up in the morning and you've got actual responsibilities instead of just writing music for yourself.

I'm an artist, and I need to work, like everybody. We need to be challenged and that we're getting up and doing something with our lives.

I just don't believe you can have it all and be great at everything, something has to give at some point. You've got to give yourself a break sometimes.

Tension happens. It will continue to happen. If we didn't have tension, we wouldn't be alive. How we maintenance ourselves makes all the difference in how we live our lives.

I'm happy to have a job. I play a little, write a little, perform some. It's not like it's an engineered, well-manufactured plan or anything. I just do what I do.

I'm a mom. I work. I have a house to clean, things to organize. We all have certain similar needs, and I address them.

I need a vacation anyway. They fight me too much. I'm not going to be the one to back out of these fights.

When I started doing music full time, I figured out my job wasn't something I needed to be completely sober for.

You can't be 'on' everyday, no one is a hit machine all the time. But if you're loving the music it will happen. It shouldn't be laborious.

I hope to stay light on my feet, to work in many modes, to seek inspiration always, and avoid the fatal. But, as we all know, it is the price of life to burn out, both metaphorically and literally.

I didn't want to be an artist in the same place I worked. You could always have people that might feel like you would do something more for yourself.

An architect is not an artist but an optimistic realist.

One of the problems of our modern world is that there's a lot of things to work through, but, at some point, everybody should take a pause from that and make something, so that it's not just all one-way traffic.

I am a woman and my business is to hold things together. My business is to tear them apart.