Quotes About Artistry

The Royal Ballet is the best paid company, but the dancers get nothing. The stage crew get paid three times more than the dancers, and they have a job for life - dancers only have 10 years.

Whether it be in acting, music, or even in dancing, I only want to do things that I truly connect to, and with my music, it's everything that I am.

When you're dancing, you're dancing for people to see.

It was always acting, singing and dancing that I loved.

I love dancing; I adore salsa dancing and wish I could be in a Broadway chorus.

In 'Seesaw,' I played Gittel Mosca, and because it was a musical, I loved it more because I was able to do anything. I was able to use all parts of me that I don't get to use... the comedy and the singing and the dancing.

I'm very smart when it comes to choosing dancers and trying to show the world that there's a whole lot of dancing going on.

With 'Space Dandy,' you've obviously got your image of the space and 80s music, and blending them together is how I created it.

I think it's very dangerous as an artist to be comfortable.

I'm very much aware of the dangers of becoming a cliche. Mr. Anger, someone who gets meaner, angrier on record.

Daniel Day-Lewis is one of the greatest actors of our age; he's like Olivier. He's one of those people who can take you into a place where no one else can take you.

Daniel Day-Lewis - he's a man, obviously, but I really admire his work.

I want to work with Danny Brown but also Cannibal Corpse and Maroon 5.

When I saw John Turturro in 'Danny and the Deep Blue Sea,' I realized that was the kind of actor I wanted to be.

I would never dare say that I'm an artist.

The score is not a bible, and I am never afraid to dare. The music is behind those dots.

Christine was me wanting to break free. I was tired of being prissy and shrinking and apologising all of the time, so I created a character that could be daring for me.

On stage, I am in the dark.

I've tried writing darker, more serious songs, but they don't go anywhere. Everything revolves around the chorus for me.

I want to do a darker, pop soul kind of feel.

We definitely like to write songs about darker things, but we like to think of it as a celebration of the evil ideas that run through everybody's head.

When I first started out writing the 'Darkness' books, there was, at least in my mind, a certain sort of rulebook we had to follow.

I want my audience to know me for my work, not because of who I'm dating or what drugs I'm on or what club I went to.

In my creative life, David Bowie is definitely an enormous influence on me, being one of rock's greatest shapeshifters.