Quotes About Artistic

After I left college I thought, very naively, that either you became someone interesting - an artist - or you went into academia. If you ended up in an office you were dull and lacking. And I ended up in an office.

I would totally do a Madonna or Lady Gaga video.

I write in a very melodic way, so that will never leave. I think my records will always tend to be approachable.

I became a melodic writer after 'Gunn.'

A chance to work with the guys from Isis sounded like a lot of fun. I've always been into the atmospheric sounds they had created with that project and felt my sense of melody would meld well with theirs.

We knew that we wanted to play heavy music but I hadn't gotten into melody and things like that.

I enjoy and understand melody before I create it. But the challenge is that I've also got to satisfy the film going audience of today.

I know how to put it into a melody and make it comical but sexual at the same time.

I like to always do my best to make music catchy, so I think a very catchy melody is cool.

I'm totally up for experimental music. I'm up for music that they don't play on the radio, and I take in all of it. But my thing, the thing that comes most natural to me, is making the stuff that has a melody; it has a soul to it, yet it's head music.

I'll generally always get melody first and then I'll go in and try and think of a title and lyrics generally come last.

I appreciate artistically made movies, but as an audience member, I want to be entertained, too.

Before 'Memphis,' I had never considered working on a musical. But when Joe DiPietro sent me the script, I heard the entire score in my head.

My mother was incredibly creative and absolutely mental.

Doing something that's physical but not necessarily mentally taxing - for me, it frees me up creatively.

You are at the mercies of the dailies. With an indie you don't have that.

'Men with Guns' - the producer's cut did not have the artistic and intellectual merit I hoped for, although I am still very proud of the work.

It took me a long time to get to where I am, but I am here and it is everywhere I want to be. A place where both my artistic merit and hard work meet. A day where I can say, 'Yeah, I'm a musician. A good one.'

I'm used to changing a lot of the dialogue. But if I feel like the script is working, I don't want to mess with it.

My studio is the only place I feel good in. There, I'm fearless; outside, I'm a mess.

I'm not the kind of director who aims to send a message out.

I don't want to be a big star. I just want to get my message across.

I'm actually an incredibly disorganized, messy person.

The first 'Charlemagne' album is metal, of course, but what I sang was more symphonic.