Mike Mignola Quotes

My compulsion is to create things.

I only want to make music because I have a passion for it.

I've always been creating my whole life, you know. I've just had a need to create, whether it was sculpting or writing or directing. It's just ever since I was a kid, I don't know.

I don't even know how to define myself. I'm a person who writes. It's something I enjoy, and hopefully people enjoy it as well.

The fame and the money and all that stuff that comes along with it is all great, but that's not the sole purpose of why I make music.

I wanted to play piano, and that slid quickly into writing - it wasn't enough to play other people's notes: I had to write notes too.

I've hardly had an avant-garde career... If you're going to make a film, you have to try to make sure it comes out of a childlike passion, as if you're doing it for the first time.

I loved painting and drawing for many reasons. One of them was that all it really required was me, a pencil and a pad. It was something I was passionate about, and still am.

I'm doing what I do for the right reasons. I love the music that I make.

I don't want money to ever drive my career. I want my career to be driven by what I want to do in art.

If people go into music with the idea of competing with other artists, then they're doing it for all the wrong reasons.

Talent will only take you so far, and it is your ability to feel the music and explore a movement that will bring you the greatest pleasure in dance.

Performers like to perform, and there's certainly no disgrace in entertaining people, in giving pleasure, you hope, through your singing. My work defines who I am.

I want to create things while I have time on Earth, and the art of costume and culture has always inspired me.

I'm trying so hard to do something that means something and has integrity and cares about talent.

I do feel pressure internally and externally to put out music, but that excites me because I love songwriting, and this brings me back to why I got in music in the first place, so I'm excited about that.

I sing because I love it. People may come to my shows because they are curious about 'Wonder Woman' but I hope they return because they enjoy my singing.

I have to write. I have to be an artist.

I just love writing songs and singing them. People seem to enjoy them, and that's all you can really ask for. I didn't get into it to try to be a celebrity or whatever.

Art was - and is - my biggest outlet. I'd probably die if I didn't do it.

I'm lucky. I've got my own studio. I can make my own music, but not many people can do that. I will always be making new music, because that's what I have to do; that's why I'm here. I will always do that.

I do promotion because I want to do art. I don't do the art because I want to be famous.

I don't want to do acting as a chore or a job.

I just feel that music is a great life because it's very rewarding. It's a gratification. You do this for yourself, and you also do this for other people.

You can't kill a good comic book series.