Quotes About Artistic

I have a hard time making a linear-idea song, because that's not the way my thoughts work.

Rob Hardy is such a great director.

I don't play guitar. I sing. I'm the lead singer, of Cousin Billy. I also play harmonica, after a fashion.

Harmony Korine, the screenwriter, was really into my early work. I did a lot of stuff under the name Sentridoh and a lot of 4-track cassette stuff that he was into.

I listen to Emmylou Harris. She's my favorite. I don't know why, but I just feel more creative with her playing.

Well, I don't like shooting in bathrooms. They're small and cramped and you've got harsh surfaces and it's difficult.

The idea of going off to an office every day and 'putting on my art hat' doesn't appeal.

One thing I always hated with CDs is when people started putting 65 to 75 minutes on their albums.

It's hard to have fun and make a fun album when you know that it's something that you need to say.

Art class was my safe haven.

The director needs to have a vision and clarity in his mind. It's not enough to know the story, he or she should have the knowledge and efficiency to execute it articulately.

I write while listening to music, mostly because the world beyond my headphones is too chaotic.

I remember a lot of conversations where I was constantly hearing, 'You've gotta do this movie so you can do that movie. You've gotta make a big movie so you can make a small movie.' But I can't act like that.

In 2008, I just decided that there will come a time when I am dead and gone, and I only have a body of work to show. That was when I did films like 'Last Lear' and Deepa Mehta's 'Heaven On Earth.' They were serious roles.

Sometimes, I would love to record a super-quiet album, but for some reason, I never really got to that because my heart lies with the heavy stuff.

Sometimes when you're heavy into the shooting or editing of a picture, you get to the point where you don't know if you could ever do it again.

I'm a hell of a bloody good dancer.

I wanted to do the whole album in black and white, and it really killed me that when you see it in the light it's got green in it. I don't know what the hell that was about.

For a director, a musical is a special kind of hell.

So much of artistic creation is just exclusion. It's not creating things; it's just excluding things that really aren't going to be helpful.

London gives birth to amazing talent but is rubbish at helping maintain it.

I can't be part of what is being done in films these days and hence I don't do films anymore.

I can't watch formulaic films and hence, won't write or make one such film.

I have lived in Cornwall from the age of 4, so I have always been aware of the artistic heritage that the county has. I feel very proud to be able to connect to this.