Quotes About Artistry

When people tell me I'm an artist, I say, 'What?' It's impossible for me to take the idea seriously.

Sometimes you say punchlines or say things in music and you may not even know any seriousness behind it. You're just trying to say something in the moment to catch attention.

Nobody sets out to make a bad record.

Of course there are some actors that are better than others and performances that are better than others, but they're always embedded in the greater film. They are mediated through the work of so many other people: the director directs, the lighter sets the scene, the editors edit, the music gets put to it.

I've been lucky to be educated by watching the old and the great movies, working with good filmmakers, and being educated on sets.

After marriage, I will have two sets of parents who are proud of me. And I also know that I won't do anything that will embarrass them. That is the trust they have in me and the responsibility that I have as a wife, friend, and also as an artiste.

From my childhood, I never wanted to do anything else but create music. From my first piano to setting up my studio, all I ever wanted was to give it all my time.

I often enjoy singing in an acoustic setting more than an amplified one.

That's the thing about being an artist: you never should settle, really.

We never settle for 'This is good enough.' It always has to be amazing because that's the kind of music we'd want to listen to, and that's the kind of music we want to give to other people.

You can teach people to sew, set up a fashion shoot, send emails, deal with the media, but what you can't teach is a sense of style. You've either got it or you haven't, it's as simple as that.

I do enjoy sewing.

Music, not sex, got me aroused.

He allowed us to choreograph the sex scenes.

The focus should be on the music and not my sexuality.

My sexuality is part of my music, part of my identity.

I'm not proud of the lyrics to 'Shake It Up.'

Shakespeare has always been up for grabs, and choreographers have every right to use him any way they choose.

When I was growing up, every show had live music. Now, almost none have live music. Probably 97 percent of the shows on television are probably synthesized, or mostly synthesized, and that's a shame.

It's a shame that when you've actually lived some life and have something to write about, they're saying you're too old to come out and play it.

I want to tell a story and shape it all the way through to the end.

Those American '90s bands shaped us.

Just sharing music with each other - that's cool. It's the selling that becomes the problem.

I just write about myself all the time, which is a funny one, because I don't really like sharing much stuff with other people, apart from music.