Quotes About Artistry

I feel like my rise is connected to my lyrics, my look, my dance, my character, it all feeds into the same funnel, which is me, myself.

I love being a mother. I think it's the best thing I've ever done, and I personally feel that it's had a very positive effect on my work. I think it's an encouraging force for creativity, it feeds creativity - it did for me, certainly.

Any song I don't feel good about, I shelve. Anything you ever hear me sing, it's because I want to.

I mean there's no other feeling than when you hear a great hip-hop song. You feel good. If you lose that as an artist, you lose a part of your passion.

I would just like to be able to give to people through acting. If I can entertain people by being somebody else and allow somebody to feel something, then that makes me feel good.

I want people to feel the times where they don't feel good. You should dive into those emotions, because that's what I do with my music.

I'd like to make music for as long as I can; it feels like something I need to do.

I just put my feet in the air and move them around.

I come from a long line of people who express themselves through the dance. I come from a long line of people who create music through their feet.

I fell into lyric writing because of music. I backed into it.

As I always said: I fell in with David Jones. I did not fall in love with David Bowie.

I keep getting compared to Marina and the Diamonds because she's kind of in the same place as me at the moment. It's quite annoying being compared, actually, because it almost downgrades your work and makes you feel like you're just another female artist.

I am a black British female artist, so I must be like Ms Dynamite, I must be like Shystie, I must be like Jamelia, but we're all different.

It's important for any artist - particularly female artists - to feel completely comfortable and to know what they're trying to do.

As female artists, we have to be constantly criticized for the way that we look, the way that we dress, on a whole other level that men don't have to face.

I have always wanted to work with Lingusamy, as he is a master of commercial cinema. I have always admired his etching of female characters.

Courtney isn't just a costume, it's a way I express my femininity.

I think dancing was a way of showing your femininity and, through the years, your strength, because it's a male-dominated industry.

I'm not feminist, by the way. I am just an artist.

I certainly am a feminist but, in my cinema, I don't talk about any 'isms'. I deal only with individuals; even if an 'ism' surfaces, it is not underlined.

In early '57, I bought a Fender Telecaster.

I did not compose my work as one might put on a church vestment... rather it sprung from the truly fervent faith of my heart, such as I have felt it since my childhood.

At Coachella, I want to start separating how I do a big festival set from how I do a club set.

Apart from working on music, I'd rather play big festivals than almost anything else.