Lucy Dacus Quotes

I don't fight creativity. I don't fight against not being creative. If I'm not being creative, I'm not forcing it.

One must not believe any of those mythologies about oneself as an artist.

I never thought of myself as being the singer that wanted to create an identity and then stick to that.

Even if you're not releasing songs, the act of creativity is important. That's the part I love, when you're in the moment. The rest of it I'm not particularly interested in at all.

As an artist, there's so many categories that you're put into, that there are so many things that I'm about that I've never explored as an artist on film. I don't see myself in so many characters in film.

When I am composing, I try to clear my mind of having to publish, or having to sell a book or find readers. That kind of thinking gets in the way.

I like the idea that paintings are not representations of an artist's psyche. Making the paintings is what gives the artist her psyche in the first place.

I still haven't made a film that defines who I am.

I've always been a bit of an orphan, because actors say, 'Well, he's more of a dancer.' And dancers say, 'No. He's really a singer.' And singers say, 'No. He's an actor.'

When I sit down to write, I consider myself an artist.

To be honest, I don't think I'm an actor. I'm a creator - or try to be.

I don't feel like I'm an artist with a capital 'A.'

There are so many separate selves; no one who writes creatively hasn't felt that.

You get used to it when you feel like you're an artist.

Created stuff is meant to be shared. That’s why the creative person created it. Why else do creative people exist?

That's what I've always wanted to do - work with my favorite writers and make something from scratch with them that we can feel like didn't exist before we came in the room.

I think the greatest privilege you have as an artist is time to nurture what you want to make; that's super luxurious. For you to rush into something, that doesn't feel fun to me. I'm living life in order to be able to write about it.

My artistic manifesto exists in the world as poetry. So even though most of the things that I've done have been on other people's projects or could be pigeonholed in certain ways, that's not how I perceive myself.

I think that anyone who is in any way creative or is creating something, whether an architect or fashion designer, I think if you have the opportunity to create something that is fully you, it frees your mind and your spirit and gives you the opportunity to really find yourself.

Being a creative person, I want to feel the highs and the lows.

I feel that I am more aware of my artistry.

Art is not the kind of thing where you get what you put into it all the time. So I learned to not expect anything other than the sort of joy of having a poem in front of me.

That's always the time to quit - when you have nothing to say as an artist and creative person.

Sometimes it's really weird being an artist, and I deal with that best by being myself.

Nobody will stop you from creating. Do it tonight. Do it tomorrow. That is the way to make your soul grow… The kick of creation is the act of creating, not anything that happens afterward