When I was young, I wanted to be a movie star. But I realized that you have no control being an actor. So I went to architecture school in NYC, because I was crazy about buildings. Then I began to realize that I got more excited about Vogue coming out each month than I was about my projects.
There's no money in poetry, but then there's no poetry in money, either.
The only job that was ever of interest to me other than filmmaking is architecture.
When I was growing up as a little girl and as a teenager, I loved designing and making dogs' clothes and wanting to be a fashion designer. I took art and ceramics. I loved dance.
And for the past 10 years I've been in a real commercial setting where people are all about numbers, they're all about that bottom line. So it's nice to step out of that and hang out with a bunch of people who play music just because they love it, as you can imagine.
Art is a way of life.
For the first time in my career, I'm working in a fine-arts arena, so I'm finally getting some intelligent reviews.
I'm more focused or try to be more focused on my acting and writing and comedy and let the other stuff fall where it may.
For some reason, I always get offered plays when I'm doing plays and then, if I stop doing them, people stop asking me.
I'd just sort of gravitated toward the arts, and I had always loved music and really loved theater, even though I didn't want to act. For some reason, being in Kansas, you can either be a graphic artist or a visual artist, so I decided, 'I guess I'm going to be a painter.'
I really wanted to go to a city and get involved in a theater scene and a theater community. I had some friends who had moved out to Chicago and had said really good things about it and about the work. I didn't care at that time about making money.
I was always involved in art and when I went under contract at Warner Bros. at 18, it afforded me the possibility of never having to stop painting, never having to stop taking photographs and so on, and to actually live a cultural life.
I think I'm no different to my friends who are doctors or businessmen or architects - we all started watching films of the golden age together. But whether I'm making films or writing poetry or doing photography, it's very much rooted in my sense of unease. And that's really where everything goes back to.
Writers who teach tend to prefer literary theory to literature and tenure to all else. Writers who do not teach prefer the contemplation of Careers to art of any kind.
If I had money, I would like to get an old building, have music performances, do lithographs, have shows of paintings, and do those things that I'm interested in doing.
I love acting, but being an actor for hire only serves so much, and then you want to fill your well up again and be charged by something else.
Maybe I'll make one movie a year, maybe two, but it's not going to be more than that because I have other priorities now.
Music is the doorway that has led me to drawing, photography, and writing.
I have always wanted to outdo myself, be it films or shows.
If I had planned to be a singer, I would have got trained. In fact, I was more into theatre and plays while growing up.
Dancing was a big part of my life, but I would never consider myself a dancer. I adore singing, and music has always been a huge part of my life, but I also enjoy acting.
Cheryl's artistically inclined. She draws and sketches, but I don't know about acting.
When you are older, you realise that everything else is just nothing compared to painting and drawing.
When I first moved to New York, I wanted to be a dancer. I danced professionally for years, living a hand-to-mouth existence. I never tapped into nightlife; all I knew was dancers. We went to bed early and got up early and went to free concerts at the Lincoln Center and Shakespeare in the Park.
I knew very early that somehow I would sing and draw and paint my whole life.
