Quotes About Artistry

What matters and what makes me feel content is the kind of script that comes my way and the quality of performance I deliver.

I think that a lot of times you have artists that try to deliver a positive message.

I get a more passionate delivery when I just go in the booth and let the music talk.

I'm real particular about delivery. You can write the illest rhymes in the world, but can you deliver it right?

I'm there from conception to delivery of an album because I don't want anybody getting in the middle of my music and meddling with my work while I'm on the road.

Music has changed, but there will always be a demand for amazing music.

The reason we started the Driver Era is just 'cause our creative endeavors sort of demanded it.

It's very demanding to make up your own music.

Each role demands the right actor. To play an artist, one must be an artist.

Money is very important to me, but its source is important too. As of now, I can say that I will never ever do films that demands me to sell my craft.

When I was in bands, I always liked the demo best.

We don't design by calculator or by demographics or anything like that. We really are a group of creative, sensitive people. We have our charmed little world where we get to make things. We're really lucky.

We know that creative people have all sorts of demons.

I write songs for the same reasons most artists write songs -because I have to, whatever that means. Because I want to talk about myself or have demos that need to be sent off. I like doing it. It's my job and I like doing it. For the most part, it's pretty easy for me.

When we make demos of our songs, we do our demos in English - the whole song's in English.

There was never a moment when I thought I'd be a dentist, I've always wanted to perform.

I could never deny myself bein' an artist.

I liked the whole process of creating on set. It's almost like creating magic. The work that the camera guys are doing at the same time, the lighting... all of the people working in their departments to make one thing.

As an artist, we depend on our face as a source of living.

If you're saying you're epically depressed in a song, you better be able to back it up. You better be able to talk about it in a smart way with someone who comes up to you after a show and is looking for help.

I've never really been afraid of how people were going to define me, as long as I didn't write some cheaper song because people like that I'm depressed.

I won't write every one of my personal experiences into songs as I think it could be a bit depressing - and its nice to not be too open.

I don't feel deprived in not completing my artistic endeavors.

I am about the arrangements and the layers of depth in the music.