No matter what you're going through, as long as you have some specific emotion, whether it's positive or negative, it is all stuff that you can use on stage. Reeve Carney More Quotes by Reeve Carney More Quotes From Reeve Carney It's always mildly unnerving when you're hanging upside down 70 feet in the air. Reeve Carney upside-down air feet My dad was a jingle writer, and my mom was a jewelry designer and musician. Reeve Carney musician dad mom I think most people who decide to become a musician have to be prepared for some degree of struggle. It makes the art better if you go through some struggles. To be an artist, in any form, you have to develop some sense of compassion and empathy - it's an important quality for everyone to have, on a human level. But I think, as part of our job, you have to be able to do that, so suffering, tends - if you allow it - to let you look on the bright side. It will help with those senses. Reeve Carney struggle art thinking I don't actually like explaining the meanings of my songs, because I think people can take away more from it if they use their imagination. Reeve Carney song people thinking I never thought I'd be acting. It's very accidental for me. Reeve Carney acting I think that's the whole point of music - to inspire people. Reeve Carney inspire people thinking I like being on stage. I love seeing new cities and returning to cities that I love. It can be a little tiring because you don't sleep in your own bed, you're in a different hotel every night and the hours are really strange, which, for me, kind of works out because I'm a bit nocturnal in general. I think for some people it might be tougher than for others because you're usually not getting to sleep until 3 or 4 in the morning at the earliest. Reeve Carney sleep morning night I write about my life and my own experience, but I also write about things that I have no knowledge of whatsoever. Reeve Carney my-own writing My dad, being a jingle writer, and my mom, being a jingle singer, they hooked me up with some people when I was a kid that worked with children's jingle singing groups. I used to sing jingles as a kid. Reeve Carney dad mom children I was on Broadway for three years with Spiderman and that amount of time spent on a show - it's a grind being on Broadway. The people that do that are probably the hardest working people. I shouldn't say that, because there's a lot of hard work that goes on in film and television, as well. That consistency of the grind of eight shows a week - I feel ready to go back to it now after having a bit of a break. I like to have the chance to jump between different art forms, whether it be theatre, film, TV, music. It's really wonderful to have opportunities in different arenas. Reeve Carney hard-work opportunity art I think in the same way you find a song that you feel represents the way you feel on the inside, that's for me what fashion is all about. It's sort of an external expression of an internal feeling. Reeve Carney fashion song thinking
