Quotes About Artistry

If you ask a filmmaker to analyse his own film, it would take three or four years to do that, honestly. Because when you make a film, you have to be convinced about it. You are married to that film for a year.

Then I sit down, work at it, because now I have a convincing feeling about what that place wants to be, you see? And it's not just me. Me and my talent comes in taking that consensus and then making something wonderful out of it - a work of art.

I'm used to people not getting it. I'll make amazing music, but it's convincing people that it's amazing - that's the problem.

I love to cook.

People don't understand how long it really takes to find beats. Sometimes they're not all the way there, but it's elements in them I love. Then I get to take them to get chopped up. Ye got to cook over a few of them.

Cooking is exactly like making music.

Cooking is the showy side of domesticity.

I love the alchemy of cooking, the theatre of it. It's creating something.

I think Kendrick Lamar is great. It would be cool to do something with him.

Music is such a big landscape. There's so much we can do with it. It's endless. That's what the cool thing about it is.

It's easy to get people to sing along to cover songs, but when it's your song, it's the coolest.

I wanted to give myself the opportunity to do the coolest drag I could possibly do.

I love doing 'Cope.' It allows me to do all three things I love: singing, dancing, and best of all, acting!

All my movies are copies of Hollywood, some of them pretty trashy copies. All filmmakers copy from Hollywood.

Even if you try to copy a film shot by shot, you still can't. It's still your own film.

I'd rather do my own performance than copy someone else's.

I don't try to make the guitar sound like the harpsichord or lute. That makes you end up being like a bad copy.

People said when I started, 'Why don't you just copy your father's style?' I had to be myself, singing my songs in my own way.

It's really hard to copy another actor and be successful. In fact, that's usually the reason people are not good, because they're copying something they've seen, but, for some reason with their face and their body, it doesn't work.

It's easy for a singer to sometimes pick up on another singer's sound, but that's just copying.

I've learned that you can do something great, but you have to continue reinventing yourself as an artist. So by the time someone else is copying your style, you have something else to offer your audience.

I see it as my job to try to keep Bach in the mainstream and present his music with, rather than without, its emotional core.

The core of me is country. It's what I love. It's what I write. Even when I sing pop stuff, I'm still singing it 'countrily.'

I get no satisfaction just showing myself in every corner of the world every week.