It's really nice to be in something that you really love and want to share with people. And then, for it to actually get shown and for people to be able to see it is awesome. It's really exciting.
People make songs so that somebody else will hear them and want to do them. I guess it's an indication that the songs aren't so ultra-personal that they can't possibly be interpreted by anyone else.
Acting came easy to me, I think. There's something about it that's a lot easier for me in the sense that you're playing someone else. In music, you're giving somebody 'you.' Being able to do that and being willing to share that is an entirely different thing.
My sketchbook is not sacrosanct, and my children would draw on one page while I drew on the other. It was something we shared.
Treating your audience like thieves is absurd. Anyone who chooses to listen to our music becomes a collaborator.
When I started writing songs, I was doing it for myself and a small circle of friends. And gradually, over the years, an audience became involved.
I'm reclusive when it comes to me giving art away because I get real sensitive about that and critiques.
I just love getting as many experiences making music for and with people as possible.
They've found a way to privately, or within a small family group, share expressions, or other images, drawings, and then gain access to some of the world's great expressions and images and make them real, make them tangible.
When you're an artist, you're generally working at home alone in a studio. It's just really good to get with other guys and make art something you can share.
The studio work that I do allows me to connect with people around the world. You can't perform live for everyone, so having the ability to share my creative vision with others is very important to me as well.
What an artist is trying to do for people is bring them closer to something, because of course art is about sharing. You wouldn't be an artist unless you wanted to share an experience, a thought.
Dreaming is the day job of novelists, but sharing our dreams is a still more important task for us. We cannot be novelists without this sense of sharing something.
I feel like I write so that people can think of it as theirs. If my song is exactly about your life right now, then it is - I don't even want to say that it's mine, because it's yours.
Creative work is not a selfish act or a bid for attention on the part of the actor. It's a gift to the world and every being in it. Don't cheat us of your contribution. Give us what you've got.
Although music comes from a very personal place, talent is meant to be shared.
We have to be evangelists for music. We couldn't just be high priests of music.
Control is the wrong word. The practice is very much about sharing, and, in any creative practice, some individuals, whether partners or directors, are much closer to certain projects than I could ever be.
Having something commissioned made it easier for me to share my work and see it out there and have people read it without feeling like there was a piece of my soul on the page.
For me, to turn people on to new music, on to things that are going on in the world, is important.
Music is about listening, the more you play, the more the magic spreads.
I'm so happy to be able to give kids the opportunity to learn about amazing world of dance and music that I've have been lucky enough to make such a big part of my own life.
Talent is always conscious of its own abundance, and does not object to sharing.
I think the poets and musicians, they belong to everybody.
You can be an artist, work hard for your work and also share while trying to create community with other artists.
