Artists and creatives face innumerable challenges given that their career path often doesn’t come with a playbook, a steady paycheck or any form of safety net. It’s definitely not easy and so we asked a few of the artists and creatives we admire to talk to us about why they chose to pursue an artistic or creative career.

Jasup Lee | Artist and musician

As a creative and artistic person you see things in a different light. I see the beauty in the details and the opportunity to transform something from ordinary to extraordinary. Not being able to express myself builds up and that is all you can think about. A song in my head that I need to put down on paper or a design for a graphic I thought of. It all oozes out of me. The thing is sometimes I have nothing, no ideas no nothing. It just comes to me at the strangest moments. Read more>>

Romana Bereneth | Bandshee frontman and novelist (Pen Name: ML McIntosh)

One word: Passion. On writing days, the thing that gets me out of bed is the idea of hitting the keyboard and telling the stories bouncing around my head. As I’ve grown older, too, the motivation behind those stories has morphed from self-entertainment, to entertaining others, to making a point through creative writing. On the Bandshee front, my favorite days of the week are band practice day. When Bandshee comes together, I finally get to hear the complete idea that’s come from that first riff or phrase I heard in my mind’s ear. Read more>>