Quotes About Artistry

When I sing songs, I love to put emotion into it. I want people to feel what I feel and just disappear for a moment.

The reason you do this stuff - comedy, plays, movies - is to be seized by something, to disappear in the service of an idea.

A lot of what I think I do as a director is try to give everything over to the actor. So I disappear.

Some actors say they don't know themselves at all, and that's why they act: because they can disappear into other people.

I want to disappear in a role.

I can't do a film where I appear in a song and then disappear.

I just tried to disappear and write songs.

I really love my chosen craft. No matter whether it's disappearing or disappeared from the mainstream, that's really been where my mind and heart is.

I could go in and make albums how Master P was doing it every three months but I don't want to do that. I could probably do it and make a lot of money and all that but I would disappoint myself.

I don't want to write because I have to; I want to write because I want to. Sometimes, when writers write because they have to, the results are disastrous.

I can say that I've become a David Fincher disciple. I have been completely turned.

I get so many ideas for songs, but I'm so seldom disciplined enough to sit down and crank them out.

Well, that's why ballet is one of the hardest disciplines - you kind of stay childlike, because you never really experience childhood, so you try to stay in that.

I don't set out to write something. I more just write, and later on, I discover what it's about.

I discovered early on that I was more of a strummer than a picker.

I listen to lots of artists. But I remember discovering John Mayer, whose music made me want to write my own. And so I did.

The 'Discovery' album was quite a successful record but we didn't tour after that.

I can't talk about every single film I made. It's not my way to go back into the past and to look at my old pictures and to discuss them.

I just never want to do anything that's going to compromise what I do. It would have to be a song where there would be honest discussion about something.

Was 'Crucify Your Mind' dedicated to anybody? No, it was a generalization. 'A Most Disgusting Song' is like that, too.

They say, 'We will give you money, but we want you to play this or that.' And I always thought, 'If I'm going to do that, I might as well go back and be a dishwasher.'

I'm not making music for people who like Disney shows. I make music for people who like music.

Music has been of central importance to Disney movies for as long as I can remember. To contribute to that legacy, is a great honor.

Fashion to me has become very disposable; I wanted to get back to craft, to clothes that could last.