Betty Wright Quotes

I also just accept that I might never want to write a song again.

I had writer's block for almost a year.

I suppose that anyone who does any kind of creative work some time in their life - especially as you grow into middle age! - you come to a time where you really question more and more frequently, whether you have anything else to offer. And at its worst, you feel utterly bereft of whatever creative force it takes to do that work.

Why do I put myself in a position to be cast aside or not considered as I would like to? Because I am a creative mind, because I still aspire to be one.

Basically, I'm a people pleaser who has a knack for disappointing.

For the next three plus years, I really was not in creative shape. That part of my brain was not functioning.

I figure that that has a ten year cycle. At the end of that ten years, I began to get worried that I would run into what is known as the writer's block, the feeling of not being able to do these things.

As things are, and as fundamentally they must always be, poetry is not a career, but a mug's game. No honest poet can ever feel quite sure of the permanent value of what he has written: He may have wasted his time and messed up his life for nothing.

A lot of young musicians get the money at the wrong time. They get it for something they don't feel great about, and it'll make you feel so bad it'll destroy you and kill you.

I've been making bronze sculptures for a long time. My sculptures are wholly unsuccessful and uncommercial. No one is even the remotest bit interested in them. So it's almost like my hobby.

If I find myself just not feeling like writing songs anymore, I think I'll drop it. There's enough bad, insincere music out there. I don't need to contribute to that.

Don't write something that is your passion project because all it will do is get the passion stomped out of you.

There was, like, a point where music was slow for me, like '09. I wasn't getting that much work.

Yeah, I was in the phase for the last ten years or so where every record I made I said OK, that's the last one, I don't want to record anymore, I don't want to do this any more, I don't want to have a public life.

I thought I had swell ideas, and wonderful musicians, but the hell of it, no one else did.

When a book goes well, it abandons me. I am the most abandoned writer in the world.

My theory about why Hemingway killed himself is that he heard his own voice; that he reached the point where he couldn't write without feeling he was repeating himself. That's the worst thing that can happen to a writer.

I never read 'The Cinderella Complex' - I'm too afraid that my name might be in it.

It's no accident that I'm not married and don't have kids yet. Because, despite what I've achieved in my career, I'm always wondering when somebody's gonna tap me on the shoulder and say, 'OK, the gig is up.'

I suppose all writers worry about the well running dry.

I still have the actor's disease. I always think I'll never get another job.

Geniuses sometimes end up very unhappy, without a penny.

Loneliness and rootlessness are just symptoms of an insecurity that assails us all when hitting this midlife moment. The world appears intent on blanking you out.

The idea of writer's block or not having inspiration is totally terrifying to me.

I was ready to quit music. It felt to me like music equalled death.