Quotes About Artistic

My compositions are, I would say, like pages ripped from a diary that I don't really want to share, but that I almost feel the need to share. It's a way for me to get things out that I can't get out in life, you know, in real regular conversation with people.

But then you have to write a song, so at that point, I picked up the reins and started to write lyrics.

I love 'Jack' as one of my creations and would never want to change it from what it was supposed to be. There was no reason to reinvent.

When Bob goes into the studio, he didn't just say, 'I'm going to do one album by itself.' No, we always had leftovers and some that were what you'd call rejects, we have those too.

There's the argument that you can relate to someone who's completely unrelatable. In the way that a director shows you his imagination on a film, then I get to show you my imagination in a big dumb character.

You could take away the singing, and I am fine. But don't take away my gift of writing. It is the best way I can relate and express what I am feeling and what I am going through.

I can obviously relate to a character who is an artist, because the creative process is a big part of my life.

It's not my concern to make a commercial pop record. I want to make a record of music that I would listen to, that is lyrically rich and has songs that people can relate to - more along the Jakob Dylan route: people who create for the art of it and not necessarily the monetary rewards of it.

Everything that I had done creatively related to two or three incidents that happened to me when I was a child that I'd forgotten. Everything, absolutely everything.

Generally, as a composer, it's perceived as an employer-employee relationship.

I have about 20 to 25 platonic relationships with women all across the board from professional to artistic and they always give little clues on what they like.

Everything is creative. It's all relative to me. No matter what, you've gotta use your imagination, use your senses.

There's always a part of my brain saying: 'Stop getting comfortable. Don't relax.' Because I find it difficult to write when I'm happy. I have to go out there and get battered up and bruised to write anything. I have to feel something.

I just want my music to be put out there, not shoved in people's faces. I want to keep it relaxed.

I feel most relaxed when I am acting or writing.

I never got the chance to put drums on 'Watersigns,' because the company was in a rush to release it - and me.

I've never gotten a release from any person. I'm not a businessman; I'm on the side of common sense. Releases ruin the atmosphere of photography.

It's very difficult to release an X-rated movie.

I want to release another CD this year, finish writing a screenplay, and make another short film.

And my music is always such a release of what I feel inside, an impulse.

I want to make an a cappella record to release for free.

I make a lot of pieces of music that I never release as CDs.

As a filmmaker, you complete a film you have spent years obsessively making, and you know the release prints will never look quite the same; prints get scratched and dirty.

There was a phase in my career in my late 20s and 30s when I was doing strange, arty-farty Euro films that were, you could tell, never had much chance of any release anywhere in the world.