Quotes About Artistry

Art is a beautiful world to get into. Once you are there, it is very difficult to get out of it. Like, once you start painting, you don't want to leave your brush and colours.

My music is very reminiscent of the sound I grew up on and the place where that happened. It's a combination of everything I'm inspired by.

If you take care of the music first, and then add elements of a good show, then it makes for a good combination.

It's a shame in a way that people come and go with one album.

Artists come and go, and that's my fear... that's what keeps me focused.

People say, 'When are you making this comeback?' I say, 'It's not a comeback, it's a record.' They say, 'Where have you been all these years?' I say, 'I've been making records.'

I take my music very serious. I don't call myself a comedian.

The great amount of fun that I have is I can cast dramatic actors to play comedic roles, and I can cast comedic actors to play dramatic roles because, really, there's no such thing. There's just actors.

I played comedies and dramas.

I would not have been comfortable in front of the camera.

Comic art is just different. It's art on its own terms.

Nothing is harder to create than brilliant comic ballets, except maybe brilliant full-evening comic ballets.

I write books, I write for comic books, I give lectures... I live. And when the opportunity comes to do a picture, I do a picture.

Everything that I am going to do as an actress doesn't matter where it's coming from. It just has to be interesting.

The films that I have done are commendable.

I don't want to be a commentator of my own work. If you've written the story, you've said what you want to say.

I don't think anything that I have done has been forced by commerce exclusively.

I will do films I want to make. I will never make a film for commerce.

I would never put my songs in a commercial.

I really hate it when I see other bands selling their music to commercials.

I didn't want to do film or commercials or television.

Usually I commit to something in my head and then I start drawing.

I started writing songs later in life because I just couldn't commit to it before.

All I try to do is to write music that feels meaningful to me, that has commitment and passion behind it.