Quotes About Artistry

Well we took it apart scene by scene. We examined every sentence, every full stop, every comma. He has a most wonderful eye for detail, Roman, and you know, he's a very good artist.

When we are making a song for Billie I want it to resonate and speak the truth with her and want it to be a piece of fabric she can wear.

No one believed me when I said it was possible to put fabric in resin.

I want to have a long career. But that's based on wanting people to buy into my voice and not into a fabricated image.

I could program a 'fabulous, I love it' kind of hit season right now. I'm more interested in breaking boundaries, telling a story, defying a truth that has been accepted.

If you look at the buildings, you'll find that one part looks as if it was designed by one man, and you go around and look at another facade and it looks as if it was designed by another man, you see.

Every three days on average, I am alone on stage, facing the public.

We try to say it's creative and in a manner it is creative, but it is a business, because today, with the cost factor in crossing the boundaries that you do.

My advice is, if you are going to go on 'X Factor,' you have to know who you are as an artist.

Singing well has always been important to me, but the most important factor is the connection to the audience.

I've been writing way before 'X Factor,' and I've been doing shows before 'X Factor.' And everything I did on this show was me being me. Same way I acted in the show is the same way I act now as an artist.

I have always believed in doing films which have strong scripts. Money is never the deciding factor for me and is not that important.

I almost shouldn't be in Limp Bizkit; it's like I got matched in the factory with the wrong band.

I'd much rather fail than do something like 'The Chorus Line' movie, sanitized and Hollywoodized.

Whenever I have tried to write for other people, that's when my writing has failed, when nobody wanted to read it or buy it. But it's only when I've been able to write a story that makes me excited, only then have other people wanted to read it.

If I'm astonished by what I've done, then I know I've been somewhere in the making of it but not during the making of it. Only after the fact. If I'm not astonished, then I've failed in the making of it.

The day the audience feel they are watching Parvathy instead of the character, that would be me failing as an actor.

Music is everywhere - you consume it every day, everywhere you go. The content creator should be compensated. It's only fair.

I suppose that when I started to play the lute it was fairly esoteric.

As an actor, you don't want to say, 'I'm going to be loud and big.' Because that looks awful; that looks fake.

I don't believe soul is something you can fake. I'm trying to make my music as real as possible, because I feel this is my form of communicating with the world.

There are an awful lot of bands out there doing our old act. An awful lot of fake moustaches and underwhelming performances.

When a lot of people think about how to be business-savvy as an artist, they think about how to brand themselves. At the end of the day, that stuff doesn't really help you. People know when you're being fake.

Becoming a writer, and then a director, was taking my creative life in my own hands, and wanting to have stories that I wanted to put out into the world - and I have fallen in love with directing.