i'll never be able to explain it to you.

“I have a friend, an aspiring musician, whose sister said to her one day, quite reasonably, “What happens if you never get anything out of this? What happens if you pursue your passion forever, but success never comes? How will you feel then, having wasted your entire life for nothing?” My friend, with equal reason, replied, “If you can’t see what I’m already getting out of this, then I’ll never be able to explain it to you.” When it’s for love, you will always do it anyhow.” ― Elizabeth Gilbert

craving attention makes you less creative - Joseph Gordon-Lewitt

"If your creativity is driven by a desire to get attention, you're never going to be creatively fulfilled"

a quote on creative freedom.

”The only advice I have is probably things that a lot of young musicians and artists already know. That although some of them may have the ambition to be the next Drake or whatever. The number of those artists are very very small. And the artists that are very successful that way, they don’t have much flexibility. And in achieving success, they can lose a lot of their creative freedom, they have to keep making the same thing more or less, over and over and over again. And if the musician and artist values their freedom and the ability to be creative, then they have to maybe realize that they won’t be making hundreds of millions of dollars, they might be making less money but they might have more artistic satisfaction.” - Unknown