Quotes About Artistic

Some folks believe that hardship breeds artistic creativity. I don't buy it. One can put up with poverty for a while when one is young, but it will inevitably wear a person down.

This is my first wuxia movie and I must consider this before trying to make something with my own.

I have always tried to put content in my work. It is a consistent challenge.

The lyrics are constructed as empirically as the music. I don't set out to say anything very important.

This exploded in me almost more music than I could consume.

When you sit down to write a film, you direct it in your head. If you are writing a scene, you are watching the scene. And maybe it's different when you are writing a novel because you are thinking of it in terms of being read. But films are only consumed one way - through the eyes and the ears.

People think the world of music is so great, and it's just not. It's so boring, the way music is conceived and then declawed for public consumption.

Music is wonderful. Especially if there's some kind of content to it.

For my career, I want to be able to do projects that have serious context to them or that make me grow as a person and an artist after the experience.

I feel that if you made your writing too contrived to meet the market, it wouldn't be any good.

You just can't control your art in the future.

I don't control my writing - it controls me.

I love pop, but with an edge so that's what I'd say my music is. And quite controversial.

I feel cool when I say I live in Brooklyn.

Sometimes choosing to leave a mistake on a track is way cooler than going back and nailing it.

I score everything by hand on manuscript paper and then make copies.

I'm forced away from what I would call my music. I can't do another thing like 'Maxinquaye.' But if people didn't go out and copy it, I might have done another three or four 'Maxinquayes.' Which is terrible.

I've been so grateful for writing, and writers and, actually I would say that that is the cornerstone of my career, the writing. That's the truth of the work that I've done in theatre and it's definitely the case for the work that I've been lucky enough to do on screen.

I want to keep - this seems so corny - I want to keep growing as an artist.

I changed the course of my life, from the rigidity of mathematics and the corporate rhythm to a more bohemian world.

If the (British) Arts Council give you money, they also tell you how to spend it.

I don't like modern country music. It's not what I'm into, is all. I'm old-school.

That's why we do this. In country music, we do this for this very reason... to impact people lyrically, to be a part of their lives.

My dad was a country musician, so we had David Allan Coe and lots of other country music playing around the house all the time.