Creative Aspiration Quotes

Writing was something I always as a kid thought would be fabulous and glamorous to be a writer.

I wanted to become an illustrator as a child.

I'm hoping one day I can make one really good film.

I loved to read, but I always thought that the dream was too far away. The person who had written the book was a god, it wasn't a person.

My family was not an artistic family, but somewhere in my head, I thought I might be good at it. I don't know why I thought it. I had no evidence to think I might be good at it.

I aspire to write what are called 'familiar essays.' They begin in the personal and end in the universal. It's not for me to say if I have been successful at it. But that is the hope.

I grew up on particular movies that said something to me as a kid from Missouri, movies that showed me places I'd yet traveled, or different cultures, or explained something, or said something in a better way than I could ever say. I wanted to find the movies like that. It was less about a career than finding the films I wanted to see.

I've always wanted to do a solo project. I've always known I wanted to be a musician.

I think my original ambition was to be an artist.

I really want to make a great record, like my 'Rumours' or 'Thriller.'

In the place where I was a child, there were no artists and there was no art, so I really didn't know what that meant. I think I thought it meant that I would be in a situation different than the one that I was in.

I've been doing musical theater since I was a kid. And look for a CD from me in the future. I want to write all the songs!

I grew up listening to John Coltrane and jazz, so they were subtle influences. I sometimes think about doing some kind of weird jazz record, but I don't know... It's on my list of things to do. I don't want to have to then go promote it.

I'll never be Bob Dylan. He's the master.

I liked hip-hop, wanted to do rap, and wanted to stand on a large stage. If you look at it in another angle... it's something that I chose.

I don't think of myself as a mystery or thriller writer, honestly. I am in awe of mystery writers and don't think I have what it takes to write such a book.

I always thought it would be so much fun to write a book.

I knew I wanted to be the Steven Spielberg of dance.

I think music has always been what I always wanted to do, but I didn't know how or when I was going to get discovered.

I wish I could do a black and white film.

I've known since I was five that I wanted to be a writer.

I remember the first time I saw 'Frances Ha' and was like, 'This is what I want to do.'

I could have been a writer.

I'm also inspired by anything that I consider great. It makes me want to raise my game too - Hitchcock movies, Hopper paintings, Springsteen concerts.

I love Lee Ann Womack and John Prine. That's kind of my ideal cross point. If I can sing it like Lee Ann would and say it like John would, then I feel like I've gotten somewhere.