Ellen DeGeneres Quotes

I just really always try to do what's in my heart and I'm still passionate about the music; I still love what I am doing.

It is not the act of making art that is painful. It is the desire to make something and not acting on it that causes pain....A day when I don't write is less happy. This is not discipline. It is affection, enthusiasm, adventure-any number of other words besides discipline.

I'm doing what I do for the right reasons. I love the music that I make.

All I've ever wanted to do is design and make; it's what I love doing.

I was fortunate enough to write about things I really love, and love can be very analytic.

I'm a bit of a strange human being - I love to work. I love art. I love self-expression.

In the deepest hour of the night I confess to myself three things; I would die if I was forbidden to write, forbidden to love, or forbidden to fashion....love each other, and celebrate the art and lifestyle of music.

Pay attention to your passions. They are the key to starting and finishing the book you are meant to write. I don't believe in talent. I believe in passion.

For me, artists and people that are passionate are fighting for what they believe in and what they want, and that's always appealing. I find that really interesting.

I love to make music, I love to get tattoos...That's just what I love. If I wasn't getting paid I'd still do it.

I always liked doing all sorts of different things. As a kid growing up, I was always drawing and painting - always doing art. But I also loved movies and music, so as I started doing everything, I liked every aspect. It's not really that I am a control freak; it's just that is what I love.

I don't know any musician, successful or otherwise, that got in it to make money. Or writer, for that matter. You get into it because you love it.

There's only one reason for my whole life, and that's art. Nothing else counts; nothing else gives me pleasure; nothing else gives me satisfaction.

I love the creative process. That's always been the closest thing to my heart, creating something.

I think people who are creative are the luckiest people on earth. I know that there are no shortcuts, but you must keep your faith in something Greater than You, and keep doing what you love. Do what you love, and you will find the way to get it out to the world.

The Diesel team has incredible passion. We work for ourselves and design for ourselves. When I see a new watch in our collection, I go crazy. I want one of everything.

I've loved art for more than 30 years.

It is impossible to know what fate will bring. If you love to write or paint, you will keep on writing or painting, and things will either work out or not, and you just have to keep being in the process.

Whether it be in acting, music, or even in dancing, I only want to do things that I truly connect to, and with my music, it's everything that I am.

I love music, and I love acting, so if I can just live and be able to do those two things, I can be happy, you know?

I love writing. I've pursued it with a passion.

If you believe in your art, and you love what you do, that energy will go out, and people will respond.

I love the passion you go through while you're creating.

Every production of genius must be the production of enthusiasm.

I think for anyone who follows the 'artistic life,' a certain amount of selfishness and self-involvement is part of the package. You're probably already disregarding a certain material life you could have.