Quotes About Artistic

I think songwriting was the biggest way that I found my identity.

The best songwriting comes from being as creative as you can and editing it down to the good bits, essentially.

I have always written poetry but I have never applied it to songwriting.

There's a lot of personal stuff that can go into songwriting but there's also a lot of dramatization and fictionalization. You have to do that to make a good song.

Songwriting is a very mysterious process. It feels like creating something from nothing. It's something I don't feel like I really control.

I wish I had more confidence. I think that's probably my Achilles' heel. If I had more, I probably would have felt emboldened to make more interesting music earlier on, or really go for it in an artistic or songwriting sense.

I've always loved both writing and songwriting. The journey is fascinating to me.

I grew up listening to a lot of classic country, and I think that shows in my songwriting.

I take songwriting very seriously and I wouldn't want anything I do to be construed as frivolous or mundane.

That's the nice thing about songwriting: You don't have to punch a clock or be in a specific place to do it. There's really a lot of freedom to it.

Songwriting is a difficult thing, but it's not so bad when you remove the barriers you put up yourself.

Songwriting can get pretty heavy and personal for me and I like being able to explore different emotions that are not necessarily my own.

I enjoy acting because it is very different to songwriting and it allows me to flex a different creative muscle.

I completely understand the responsibility I have in continuing the sonic style that I have created.

I've always been an acoustic guitar player, and I've pretty much continued to play acoustic guitar throughout all of the Sonic Youth periods. My material for Sonic Youth often started on acoustic guitar.

As far as we're concerned, we're always Sonic Youth, and we're always making a Sonic Youth record. We just see it so much more as a continuum than a periodic thing. We're just in the studio making the next record, and we don't relate it to anything other than what's going on at the moment.

To me there's no creativity without boundaries. If you're gonna write a sonnet, it's 14 lines, so it's solving the problem within the container.

'Angel Of Death' was a big problem. I remember getting a phone call after the album was done: Sony wasn't going to release it.

We make films that we ourselves would want to see and then hope that other people would want to see it. If you try to analyze audiences or think there's some sophisticated recipe for success, then I think you are doomed. You're making it too complicated.

But actually I make films that I think are extremely sophisticated and cinematic.

Most musicals are informed by very rigid archetypes. If you get a very sophisticated mind writing them, you sense something else, but it's a folk-art form, really, at its best. At different times, I've tried to push against it as much as I possibly could, but ultimately, it is a folk-art form.

If my art has nothing to do with people's pain and sorrow, what is 'art' for?

Things were sort of Bohemian in Montmartre - one lived, one painted, one was a painter - all that doesn't mean anything, fundamentally.

I sort of had that fantasy of being one of the muses of Paris and hanging out with Toulouse Lautrec and Picasso.