LL Cool J Quotes

My boyfriend's a musician, and I think when he's on stage is the only time he's not worrying. And so that's the reason he keeps doing it is because it gives him that sort of experience of weightlessness that I only get out of being sort of, deep into writing something or really lost in a moment on set, like it's available to me in these select moments through my work.

I am a musician and am so thankful for that. I have no experience of war. But I find a similarity between performing music onstage and acting - a reality of emotion.

I always wanted to be in the world of entertainment. I just love the idea of an audience being happy with what I am doing. Writing is showbusiness for shy people. That's how I see it.

Especially with music, people want confidence.

I love to perform live.

Anyone who writes knows that ultimately the majority of your time is spent alone in a room with a piano or a guitar, no matter what the project is.

I'm always writing or playing because that is my life.

I totally remove myself from any costumes, wardrobe, any choreography. I could care less about that stuff.

The music and everything we're doing on the stage and on television backs itself up. If that's what gets people's curiosity going or brings their attention to us, that's fine.

I'm an entertainer, period. But I'd probably have to say my passion is in singing. I'm willing to go broke singing.

I grew up wanting to entertain.

Real entertainers love to entertain.

My lyrical content is all about entertainment.

I'd still rather be singing on stage than doing anything else.

Playing live is great, but it's not a creative thing, really. It's a reproductive thing.

When you compose, it's like writing. You're like a writer. You just think all the time.

There are other artists out there, in which some like to write and others like to perform and others like to talk, but I really just love to perform and entertain.

From a very young age, my main thing was always entertaining.

Go on stage and stomp my foot on stage and play my guitar and sing my guts out because I love to entertain people. That's what makes me happy.

I love being on stage if I'm not on a set. If I'm at home, I'm usually in my office editing or reconstructing my website or whatever it may be. I just love putting creativity into a performance.

Without electricity, there can be no art.

I was very dramatic as a kid. I loved to entertain. I was taking my bathing suits and painting them black and putting sparkles on them because I thought I was going to be on stage.

The studio and road both have their charms. The studio allows me to be a mad scientist and the tour lets me feel like James Bond.

I love, love, love songwriting. It's like the most therapeutic thing in the world.

People think, "Oh my god, you've been doing this job for so many years, it must get boring." It's like, "No, hell no," because I get to sing, I get to dance, I get to be on TV and in films, I get to do merchandising, licensing, show up at conventions, write, or take photographs for my book. There are so many different things going on for me that it never gets boring. It's always fun and interesting.