When I don't write, I feel my world shrinking. I feel I am in a prison. I feel I lose my fire and my color. It should be a necessity, as the sea needs to heave, and I call it breathing.
I use music as a medium to talk to people.
I started using this outlet of creativity - you know, going to the studio, writing, meeting these writers and producers - as the best form of representing myself to my fullest potential.
As an artist, I really feel I need an outlet to exhibit all of my skills.
While my classmates were reading their textbooks, I drew in the margins.
For me, acting was always a way to explore emotions - to dip into the well and really try to reach rock bottom down there. That was the most exciting part of it. I hadn't found anything that really allowed me to do that until I came upon acting.
I started writing because I wasn't getting things as an actor.
When art find no temple open, it takes refuge in the workshop.
From time to time, I've experimented with sculpture or metal design. It's a good break from just sitting behind the keyboard.
I relax more when I'm behind the camera than anything else. I love that.
It's a blessing as an artist to express myself - whether that be via dance, via song or via speech - in so many different ways.
It's always nice to be able to capture your life's experiences in a song and hold the emotion in that way.
I find it easier to write about stuff that is frustrating.
Writing is a form of therapy; sometimes I wonder how all those who do not write, compose or paint can manage to escape the madness, melancholia, the panic and fear which is inherent in a human situation.
I feel very lucky that when I'm burnt out of acting I take to the pen and I write something I want to direct.
It's very intimate. There are certain moments where it feels like it's just you and the lens. It's something that has been a very stable, consistent thing in my life.
The reason I play music is to touch people - for selfish reasons, as well. It feels good to make someone else feel something, whether it's a kiss, a painting, good idea or it's a song.
I've been writing all my life, and playing bass came later on, when I was about 26. What I recognized with poetry and music that I had a different voice - there were things I wanted to express that I could not as an actor or even as a director. It was another avenue of expression that my soul needs.
Writing is so entwined with my being that I can't imagine a life without it.
Writing is not life, but I think that sometimes it can be a way back to life.
I didn't have the welfare. I didn't have the proper education. I didn't have these things. That's why it's almost like a complex in me that I want to explode myself in my films.
Writing has freed me from the despair of living.
Music is what I breathe, what I love to do. It keeps me alive.
Life makes writing poetry necessary to prove I really was paying attention.
When things become peculiar, frustrating and strange, I think it's a good time to start painting.
