Quotes About Artistic

I'd love to play a musician in a film.

My best business decision was to be independent as a musician and artist. My worst was compromising on certain aspects of a deal for the sake of other members of my group when I shouldn't have, because I was right in the end.

The idea that I am cynical because I'm writing the books that I write is a bit like someone saying, 'What, you've done a second album? Oh, I see, cashing in on your first album, are you?' But I'm a musician! It's sort of what I do.

I don't have any desire to do something that sounds explicitly rock. Like, I don't have a burning need to be a rock musician. I feel like I've taken that as far as I can take it, for me.

I am a muso, and I love doing it. I assumed that would be my career for a long time. I always wanted to be a writer, but I didn't think that anyone could actually be that full-time, so I always go back to conducting and arranging and playing. If you scratch me, I'm a musician.

If I could be a musician, I'd do it. I love singing.

Musicians are impossible.

I was always trying to do architectural jam sessions. But it's not quite as easy as singing or playing a guitar, so I would always see wonderful live musicians and just envy them that I wasn't in that medium.

Our parents were musicians.

Both of my parents were musicians.

I've had so many different influences musically, even from people who aren't even musicians. If you're inspired by someone and you document it musically, then they are your influence.

There's no background of creativity in my family; there are no actors or musicians.

I have a fairly limited drawing style. I'm not like my friend Derek Kirk Kim, who can pretty much change his style at will. My drawing style can handle some of my stories, but not all of them.

I don't envision a very long life for myself. I think my life will run out before my work does. I've designed it that way.

The idea of directing my own movie is definitely more challenging than choreography.

There will always be times where you think, 'What went wrong? Why wasn't that one more popular?' You can't always figure that out, especially if you think you've done the best job you can do and was interesting to you. I mean, 'My Soul to Take,' I thought should have done much better, and I still like that film a lot.

I go through every single emotion. My artistic life will likely be shorter than it could be because everything is for real for me. This is my life and my soul.

My music is my soul speaking, literally. It's spiritual. It has a lot of feelings, a lot of pain.

Creative freedom and self-expression is what MySpace is all about.

The problem is that music is selfish in that you need to make it for yourself, so that you can give it away, and those two things don't jive. I needed to find the right reason to play that had the magic and mystery and excitement that made me want to play in the first place.

I don't know - it's a bit of a mystery of how things come about when they do. I don't have a scientific explanation for it. Sometimes when you're writing a song, you don't know where you're going.

I've never been one of those guys who storyboards every frame, because that would take away some of the mystery and some of the fun.

What we do is pretty stylised. It hasn't got mass appeal. This, combined with the fact that we've never been over-exposed, seems to have created a certain mystery.

I have this idealistic and maybe naive thought that almost any song can be anything. If you record one song today, it would maybe be exciting and cool. But I could record the same song next week and it would be something completely different.