Quotes About Artistry

Ballet really taught me so much about the power of movement.

I think that taking ballet is one of the best things a girl can do. Period.

Apparently, I have good feet for ballet.

Sometimes I feel as if sections of my ballets were done for me - that I didn't do them myself.

I've been wearing makeup for as long as I can remember. I started by playing with my mom's lipsticks, then in ballet I would apply my own stage makeup.

I always liked dancing and you'd go to class and find you had an hour acting and an hour of ballet.

When I was in the Pussycat Dolls, I did study jazz and pop, but Latin and ballroom were not at all in my world.

I loved being in a band.

It's really hard to name a band.

I agree with the rest of the band, that a truly synthesized sound isn't really what I would want to go for.

I want to talk about my band, you know what I mean? I don't want to talk about other bands.

I think once I started writing my own music and having my own bands, that's when I got more of a focus on what I wanted to do, personally.

Growing up, just singing in bands, I didn't have the same kind of voice as everyone else.

I started writing when I was 13. I got my first electric guitar when I was 13, but I'd always been singing. I had my first little acoustic when I was six. But I started being in bands when I was 13.

There are bands like Imagine Dragon, Grouplove, and fun. who have come along and shifted the way that rock can sound.

I'm not a guy who grew up in theater. I've always played in rock bands.

Set lists are like movies. They need a great beginning, a dynamic shift in the middle, and bang at the end.

Azealia Banks - love what she's doing.

When we were younger, playing a bar or a club, we did what we did to get as many people to like what we were doing. I wanted the person in the back of the room to like it as much as the ones in the front. That's how I've always looked at it.

I always play barefoot. I can't play with shoes on.

I always like to sing barefoot.

I think about John Lennon all the time. What would John Lennon do? What would John Lennon say if he got this part? How would he act? I don't know, but he's my moral barometer.

Language is no longer a barrier for artistes.

My music's matured so much, I don't have to create any barriers.