To make living itself an art, that is the goal.
When people say they write for themselves, that's probably what they do. I will admit that I don't write for myself; I write to be read. I've got the reader in my mind all the time.
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.
In my low periods, I wondered what was the point of creating art. For whom? Are we animating God? Are we talking to ourselves? And what was the ultimate goal? To have one's work caged in art's great zoos - the Modern, the Met, the Louvre?
I think somewhere in the back of my mind I've always wanted to make a whole swing album.
I want to be like Bruce Springsteen or something, making songs that are relevant.
There was never really a Plan B for me - I always wanted to be a music artist.
I think my original ambition was to be an artist.
My stated goal as a filmmaker is to feel something. Is to have a palpable emotion in my life, carry it through the gauntlet of the filmmaking process and try and have it land for an audience at some point during the viewing experience. That to me is successful filmmaking.
I have no interest in making a work that doesn't elicit a feeling.
I would love to make an album full of ballads. For a listener, I want to have variety on there.
When you spend two to three years working on an album that I feel very happy with the end result, there is nothing I would change. Musically, I have achieved what I set out to do.
I wanted to make an album that plays from the top to bottom and feels together and complete. That's just something that felt important.
I always knew I wanted to be a performance artist.
I had this project called 'Ruin' in my head for six years or so. This really big, really ambitious sci-fi thing. It's kind of my 'Star Wars'. I'm trying to achieve what 'Star Wars' did for me as a kid.
I have just wanted to be an actress. That's always been my goal. I didn't want to be famous.
I make movies that audiences like, that I'd want to see. That's all.
I don't compose songs to showcase my proficiency in music or to please hard-core music lovers. The basic criterion is that my work should reach all sections of music lovers.
Making music all the time was my dream.
At the end of the day, I'm not really trying to make a statement with any of my standup.
I have always wanted to write a book that ended with the word 'mayonnaise.
There's no making art for art's sake. You've got to make the best art you can.
I wanted to be Langston Hughes.
Someday I'd love to come back and start a theater company in Boulder. That would be a dream come true.
Eventually, I would love to direct, but not anytime soon. I just love the storytelling aspect.
