Quotes About Artistic

If I had gone to drama school, I wouldn't be sitting here now because it would have blanded me out; it would have just turned me into another actor.

I'm Icelandic. We're all so dramatic.

I like to stay artistic. So I always like to draw or write.

I do get the sense sometimes that if I draw things too nice, maybe I won't be indie-rock enough anymore.

I never played sports. I was always drawing.

Growing up, I just always doodled, which is the worst word for it. I would just draw things in class, get yelled at by my teachers, get my drawings taken away. That stuff happened all the time.

I'm not very good at thinking, 'This is the thing I should do now to help my career.' I mean, I want to keep my career going, but that's not what draws me to a story.

I always dreamed, when I started writing music, to find a way of immersing yourself in it.

I dress a little strange. I dress a little theatrically.

I always knew I wanted to create. I used to sit in my room for hours drawing and making things. I once got into trouble for cutting up my mother's lampshades to make a dress. I was three.

I don't want money to ever drive my career. I want my career to be driven by what I want to do in art.

My dad was a drummer for The Mamas & The Papas, and his mother was in the jazz world, so music has always been very much in my blood.

One of the reasons I needed to leave Dream Theater was because I didn't want to end my career as just the drummer in one band.

I love design-based stuff. I dug it in 'Pleasantville' and dug it in 'Seabiscuit.'

I see it as my duty in some way is to be out in the world as an Australian putting forward what I consider to be authentic Australian music.

When I'm dying, I want to think I did what I felt was best for the words I was writing. This may mean, at any time, that I won't be publishable anymore.

If I went for too long without writing, I would start to feel like something inside me was dying.

I think albums should be dynamic, man.

I wanted more of my opinions accepted by the Eagles. I wanted to sing more.

I like serious films and earlier used to do only such films.

I've done a lot of films that all have been pretty edgy.

I like things that are avant-garde, but at the same time I can also go downtown edgy.

My younger daughter really loves makeup. She's quite good artistically. I could see her going into something possibly behind the camera - whether it's in film or still camera for editorial stuff - but she's very taken with makeup, and she's really quite talented for as young as she is.

'Oxygene' was one of the first, if not the first, popular electronic music album.