Josh Lucas Quotes

Personally, I experience success when I enjoy what I'm doing. I love the creative process, even if the end result isn't embraced by anyone else.

If you do have something you love to do, the fun part of the job is no different than what was fun about doing it in high school for no money. I thought there would be some greater reward in succeeding.

My primary thing is to make a painting, not necessarily to make a painting to sell for gazillions of dollars, but just to make a painting.

Some stuff I don't even put out. I'll just be home, happy, creating something for myself, and then ball it up and throw it in the trash. It's less about trying to prove something or get on somebody's list or make a fan happy or make a hater mad or convert a non-believer. That's not the case for me anymore.

As long as it's making you happy and you're enjoying it, then you should never stop writing music. Whether it's going to take you somewhere, viewed by other people, or it's literally you in a bedroom at home, it should be something that you do for yourself.

Work for work's sake doesn't thrill me, but when I'm in the zone, I'm creative, and the expression is free.

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.

The word 'success' - who's defining it? It's about whether or not it makes me feel good. Four billion people don't have to see or hear it. If I've enjoyed the process of creation and I'm at peace, then what happens next is just entertainment. If mass appeal were actually something, Marilyn Monroe wouldn't be dead.

Love what you do, not the love you get for doing it.

Satisfying myself is the point in filmmaking, in my mind.

Songwriting is like going to church. I'm connecting to something, and it's rewarding in really important ways. I don't need to share it with anyone to feel good about it.

No writer need feel sorry for himself if he writes and enjoys it, even if he doesn't get paid.

It's about the journey and the process. I do things because I love doing them, or trying them.

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

It's good for people to look at me and think, 'This guy is doing his thing and enjoying what he's doing and successful at it and living his life.' And that's what I'm doing, and I'm very happy.

I've done all this stuff because it's fun. It's never been about fame.

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

I feel fortunate about being able to make the music I want to make and getting away with it.

I think as long as you're being creative and finding your own work interesting, that's all that matters.

Success is important only to the extent that it puts one in a position to do more things one likes to do.

I look at building business as a creative process that I enjoy.

I've never been driven by fame or money or anything like that. It's never been part of my psyche.

When I write, I enjoy myself so much that what is being written really needs no reader.

I didn't have any concept of Trainspotting being published. It was a selfish act. I did it for myself.

It doesn't matter what you do, as long as you're fulfilling that inner need, and for me the need is more the process than the finished product. My photographs are stories of the process.