Alia Shawkat Quotes

I spend as much time as I can in my garden, and if I'm not writing songs or gardening, I'm painting.

I don't watch TV. In my spare time, if I have any, I want to make music.

Whenever I have time, I try to get in the studio and write, whether it's for me or other artists or my catalog of music. It's definitely one of my favorite parts of the music industry.

I work on words, mostly, toward them being poetry or short stories, and then some of those become songs. They all find their place in the world, but they all start off in the same place. I'm always painting and drawing as well, and it's an ongoing creative assignment.

I do Taekwondo and sometimes I paint.

I've been really enjoying writing articles and writing music and music for movies.

Music is a passion of mine, so I also want to continue along that path, creating with my friends.

When people ask me if I have a hobby, a lot of times my answer is that I like to surf in warm water. I like to ski, if I have the opportunity. But really, I like to go to my studio and write music that I want to write, where there's no pressure to come up with a hit single.

I've been writing songs on little pieces of paper since I was a little kid, and it's just always been something I've done.

If I weren't musical, then I would have just published a book, you know? But I'm lucky enough to play piano, and so I use piano to convert my poems.

I started writing little short stories and poems as soon as I learned to read and write. I think I was six years old. And then when I got to be eleven, twelve, and into my teens, I was just listening to records all the time, and I got a guitar. I started to take guitar lessons when I was twelve.

I was loving music, and loving art, painting, so I was considering those things, but I must say I dug acting as well.

There was a point after the whole intensity of the Clash finally subsided when I just found that painting grounded me in a way that music didn't.

I dream about singing. I would love to sing and write.

You know, when I was younger I was into all kinds of art - drawing, painting, all that stuff. But I played drums, played piano forever.

I'm 38 years old and Limp Bizkit is just something I do. If I was a painter, it would just be a type of painting I make.

I'm approaching a period in my life though where I'd like to be totally absorbed into music, doing concerts, writing something. Basically, that IS what I am doing.

As a teenager I started painting and playing guitar.

I am an inventor of music.

I started trying to write songs when I was 8 or 9 years old.

I was working at a non-profit for five years. But I could always create music after work. All throughout those years, I was writing songs and recording music and performing around town.

You know I want to sing for people, I want to jazz people up I want to make new music that they've never heard.

I'm always in that mode - whenever I have a little free time, I'm always recording songs, writing, whatever I gotta do. It's like my job is my vacation.

I'm always writing. And, I mean, I always counsel people when they call me a musician: I really do not have the skills of a musician. I really don't think like a musician, though I love music and I perform and sing.

Music is my biggest passion aside from anything else.