Quotes About Artistry

The masks, for us, are more of a way to present ourselves live, you know?

You want to reach people, but you also want to reach them in the most authentic way. You now have a mass market and an audience that's listening, but they're in love with a song that means absolutely nothing to you.

Whatever the download thing has done to the game, you as an artist can get yourself out there to the masses, off your own back.

I'm massively inspired by 'True Blue'-era Madonna, but she is absolutely confident and in control of the situation.

Eminem is a master.

There is nothing quite as exciting as watching a master at work.

I watch Renee Fleming a lot. I listen to Renee Fleming a lot. She was like my built-in master class.

To make a masterpiece would be my life's dream.

I hope to record the perfect album, my masterpiece, before I die.

I want to own my masters. That's the main thing--owning all my music.

Looking back on it now, I felt that I was blessed much like the masters, I guess - the guys who wrote the concertos.

The Masters is poetry to me.

The audience will find the artist who matches their interests. If you're not being true to yourself, your audience can't find you, because there's a wall up between who you are and who they're seeing.

Right now we're in the process of writing new material for a new record.

I love artists whose work feels animated! Matt Cummings, Ian McGinty, Jake Myler, Arielle Jovellanos, Drew Rausch, Zachary Sterling, Troy Little - I feel like most of the artists I've worked with have a lot of movement and life in their work.

I seem to have secured some place in world of music and that's kind of all that really matters to me.

Quality isn't about where the money came from or which company gets to put their name on the thing. What matters is who made the movie and why they made it.

Over the years with me maturing as an artist and as a person, I really learned to keep things in perspective.

Sometimes I leave mayonnaise on the ends of my hair for a few hours while I'm writing; it's a really good moisturizer.

I can't make Based God music all the time. The Based God is something that is better than Lil B and better than Brandon McCartney; he's something that I aspire to be.

I would love to work with Shane Meadows - great director.

Art is the meaning of my life.

I don't know whether I like it, but it is what I meant.

Our big songs were all songs that were never meant to be.