Evangeline Lilly Quotes

I often start writing in order to excite an expansive emotion.

I get my most creative sort of energy after a show. So I love to go back to the hotel and compose new material. Generally in a rush, exactly. I have to get it out somehow, otherwise I can't sleep, you know.

I realized after writing songs for years how important it is. Whether it provides a living for me or not, that creative outlet is something I need.

All my songs are where I am.

I tend to write it and then let go emotionally.

When I'm writing well, I feel happy. And when I go too long without writing, I begin to implode.

It is something actresses need to go through and I think they look forward to being naked in a movie. I don't know why, but it is something you need to exhaust from yourself.

I had a lot of songs and words and scenes stuck inside of me. So Jacknife encouraged me to bring them all out. So, in essence, 'You and Others' is my diary.

Naturally, I've always felt more like a writer myself, and I've always written. I have people who are writers who've been promoting that side of me. I also draw, too. Those things I feel most comfortable in.

I think they saw me as something like a deliverer, a way out. My means of expression, my music, was a way in which a lot of people wished they could express themselves and couldn't.

I have to have some kind of creative outlet; otherwise, I'm hell to be around.

Well, painting is the one thing I do, that is just me. It's me and easels, and the pencils. And as long as I don't drool too much over the canvas, the colors come out pretty good. And it's a chance to express all that I've got inside, that I sometimes keep hidden. And I think that's why I paint big broad, wide open landscapes.

When I'm creating, that's my heaven. If I haven't designed something every day, it is a failed day - that's how much I love fashion.

No one was creating and I always wanted to be created on.

When I write, I don't have any expectation of what kind of song it will become or who it might reach.

I genuinely find the most meaningful thing I do is to make music, but also to absorb some sort of creativity.

I love writing and directing because it's great therapy. Every project I've done, there's been a personal connection.

I'm never gonna step away from stand-up. I can't. That's what got me where I am, and that's also my muse. That's how I stay level-headed. That's what keeps me going.

The cavemen, when they saw the antelopes, they had to scratch them on to the caves because they needed to express the immediacy of what they were being affected by - and I love that. That is why I do what I do. I need to express myself.

I only do solo albums when songs are screaming at me to be let out of my mind.

Songwriting is my way of channeling my feelings and my thoughts. Not just mine, but the things I see, the people I care about. My head would explode if I didn't get some of that stuff out.

Right now music is more my outlet than acting, but I'm waiting for that one satisfying role.

Creation is a drug I can't do without.

Writing is how I metabolize life and how I give and receive.

When I'm writing, it's the weirdest thing: it's not even a conscious process. I'm not even thinking when I write, and then all of a sudden, I'll have a song that makes me feel so much better than I did before.