I've always envied people who compose music or paint, because they don't have to be bothered with the sort of crude mess that language normally is, in everyday life and in the way we use it.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
To be an artist, you don't have to compose music or paint or be in the movies or write books. It's just a way of living. It has to do with paying attention, remembering, filtering what you see and answering back, participating in life.
To me, writing and composing are much more like painting, about colors and brushes; I don't use a computer when I write, and I don't use a piano. I'm at a desk writing, and it's very broad strokes and notes as colors on a palette.
I'm not musically inclined. It blows my mind that people can write music. I don't have that talent; I look up to the people that do.
I like to compose, but only for myself. I write my own lyrics and compose the music around them.
I'm happy to be a writer - of prose, poetry, every kind of writing. Every person in the world who isn't a recluse, hermit or mute uses words. I know of no other art form that we always use.
Music is just a really fun hobby that I do, because I'm actually really good about writing songs and producing. People don't realize this, but I am an excellent writer for artists.
When you do music, your friends are writers, actors, painters. It's all under the same roof. So anything creative is interesting to me.
I think of painting without subject matter as music without words.
I write music because I love it. Sometimes more than anything in the world.
I love making up visual works of art in language. I get to be an artist without actually being an artist in that sense.