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Anxiety is the hand maiden 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.

Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties.

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.

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.

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.

In my mind, creativity is consciousness.

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.

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 runs on automatic, no matter what's happening in other parts of my life. I can't help myself. It's been in me, and it evolves in me over the years. It's a condition in me.