I was a drama major through college.
Apparently, I don't want to take myself too seriously.
I was with a folk trio back in '63 and '64, and we traveled all across North Africa, Israel, and Europe.
Playing with my grandfather, grandmother and my parents, I came to music pretty naturally.
I'm an actor, I created the character myself originally. I do tell the fans I appreciate that they think he's real. It all finally comes down to the writers who really got the character and wrote so many memorable lines.
If I write songs and I think they sound good, then that's it. That's what I do. I'm not a technical musician, which is fine for rock and roll.
I'm not one of these people who sits down and writes to say I'm gonna write a song about this or that, or a specific subject. The songs actually kind of write themselves.
There's not that many people from the sixties who have progressed as writers and are continuing on. They're out there. But I'm one of them who's just continued on, following his own little inner madness.
In my early days, I was about 145 pounds. I was really a starving artist; the poster child for starving artists.
I wouldn't really say I'm a jazz guy, which I'm not.
I had always planned to be an actor, and the music was just in my DNA, it's always been.
When I first went on [Facebook], I found there were five or six Creed Bratton sites. It was all over the place. I had to compete with other people saying they were me. It was nuts, so this is nice that people know that if they're gonna send something to me, I'm gonna be with my weird little mind looking at what they have to say. And what they're seeing is actually me.
I do love to walk around in New York because people will notice me, smile, but they never bother anyone. New Yorkers are very cool. I love New York.
Women in stores will pull their children away from me sometimes so they won't catch the crazy Creed virus. Other folks are disappointed that I'm not that guy in person.
What does a painter do? You get a painting, you put some intent and passion and emotion into these things, and hope the people will receive it. Same as a playwright. It's art.
I still have auditions for independent films. I've been still working.
I love music so much; I've always played.
