Quotes About Artistry

It was not cool to be that fun, bubbly kid, so I would just go off on my own and sing and make up songs, and that's how I think I developed into the kind of artist and writer that I am.

The whole point in developing your own style is to find your own voice.

In the back of my mind, when we were developing 'Next to Normal,' I always heard Alice Ripley.

As a craftsman, I bust my butt as much for 'Blade 2' as I do for 'Devil's Backbone.'

Theatre requires devotion that is all-consuming. When we started out, we didn't mind working 12 hours a day. We didn't mind going endlessly over and over a scene to make it right. I was the company's costumer for the first few years, and I remember the budget for 'Balm in Gilead' was $150.

That's what music-making is: a dialogue.

I'm a big believer in writing really good dialogue.

I know I sometimes come across as being quite dismissive about acting. But I'm not. It's like people reading their diaries in public. I don't want to talk about how I create characters. I find it self-indulgent.

I just let the emotion dictate what the arrangement is.

With art and the work you do, it has to be constantly dictated by what you're feeling and where you want to go with it.

Lzzy Hale could sing me the dictionary, and I would swoon. She is so amazingly talented, and her voice is absolutely delicious.

I want to make music until I die.

I'm still Lil Xan. You can call me Diego if you want. My second album, I'm going to be full Diego.

I put a hell of a lot of myself into 'Love Never Dies,' and I felt quite drained afterwards.

I've had my differences with Massive Attack, but you can't deny what they've done. They've changed the face of music. They should make up an award for them even if there ain't one.

As an actor, it's amazing to get to create different characters.

At the end of the day, if I can say that I had a career where I was able to play all different kinds of characters and I'm known as someone who is well-respected for my approach to the craft, that would be a beautiful life.

I had to make different kinds of music for everybody but still keep it classic T-Pain at the same time.

I loved a lot of different kinds of music, but for my own thing, I went for the singer-songwriters.

I enjoy being able to do different kinds of music, not just to be eclectic but because those are all a part of me.

As an artist, you keep learning. You draw out different parts of you.

I'm not really interested in myself in my writing. I can't see myself in the songs, even though I know different parts of me are there.

It feels like there are two very different parts to making movies. There's the making of it and then there's the putting out of it - and I like the making of the movies a lot more than putting it out into the world.

I have the feeling that a lot of poets writing now are - they sort of tap dance through it.