Quotes About Artistry

I just make music that I love. I'm kind of selfish when I make music. I'm like, 'Do I like this?'

When you first sit down to write songs, you have to be selfish.

I want to make music that I like; not something that I have to make because I think it's going to sell.

Selling music doesn't make that much money.

I enjoy selling my music. I don't enjoy selling myself.

I need to make money, but I don't want to be another guy selling his McDonald's to the pop market.

I want to sell music. That's all I'm interested in selling.

Selling out is when you do something that you don't naturally want to do.

The biggest affront to any audience is if you feel like someone took something you love and is selling it out.

No one can establish what selling out is.

There's never been a song that I just wrote and tried to send to an artist.

I think this is true for all artists. My senses are very important to me.

Most actors don't really have a director's sensibility. They have an actor's sensibility.

Which actress wouldn't want to work with Vishal Bharadwaj? I have worked with him before and I really like his sensibility.

I thought make-up was a very sensual thing.

As soon as you make some films that people like, you'll be sent material, and that can come from anywhere.

I still think it's really quite wonderful when I read a sentence of mine and it has that quality of lastingness.

When I read a review, 90% of the review is about my lifestyle, and the last two sentences are about the record.

Fall into your sentences; enjoy writing them. Love the world you are creating.

Often, the people I'm working with on music are separate from the rest of my life.

It might seem difficult to separate my artist and my writing career, but for me, it's just music.

There's no separation anymore between who I am and what I create.

I will never write a sequel to anything that I will ever write.

I don't want to be someone whose shot takes you out of the dramatic sequence or takes you out of the emotional story that you're trying to tell or says, 'Hey, look at this cool shot I have here.' To me, that's not right.