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Anxiety is the handmaiden of creativity.

Anxiety is part of creativity, the need to get something out, the need to be rid of something or to get in touch with something within.

For as long as I can remember I have suffered from a deep feeling of anxiety which I have tried to express in my art.

My anxiety level of my own work and what I'm doing and focusing on my art and all of that stuff? That's fundamental.

Creativity has got to start with humanity and when you're a human being, you feel, you suffer. You're gay, you're sick, you're nervous or whatever.

Anxiety is a natural thing humans have. You know, that's how we evolve. That's how we are, you know, we think things through. Sometimes my mind just thinks things through a lot.

Any kind of creative activity is likely to be stressful. The more anxiety, the more you feel that you are headed in the right direction. Easiness, relaxation, comfort - these are not conditions that usually accompany serious work.

Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties.

Every writer knows that unless you were born gifted with either supreme confidence or outsize ego, handing in your work holds, in some cases, admitted terror. If that's too strong, at least fairly high anxiety.

If I were to try and find a unifying emotion that kept me calm and focused while I was dancing or writing or solving a math problem, I think the one unifying thing about all those that keeps my interest is creativity.