Quotes About Artistry

If you make a good show, you tend to get good reviews. I don't believe it is as arbitrary as some people tend to think, which artists do to protect themselves against bad reviews.

Both singing and acting are so rewarding that I couldn't pick between the two.

The most rewarding experience as a musician is to know that I moved people personally.

Particularly in my early days, I did very little rewriting.

My favorite Eminem song is probably 'Lose Yourself' because I can relate to it a lot. That's how I feel every time I write a rhyme.

There will always be a place for bunnies to talk in rhyme, but that's not what I do.

I liked Big L's wordplay with the multi-syllable rhymes he hit so clean.

Even when I'm 70, I'm still gonna write rhymes.

I want to find my own rhythm and style. That's probably the harder way to approach it, but I think it will pay off in the long run.

I'd love to work with Rick Rubin. He made some pretty seminal records.

I listened to a lot of Ricky Skaggs' Country stuff.

When young people hear auto-tune, they think that's real R&B. You have to get rid of all of the gimmicks.

I won't be the kind of artist speaking in riddles all the time - it will be lyrics that make sense the moment I say them.

I wouldn't put out anything that I didn't want to ride to.

'Easy Rider' and 'The Last Movie' were the only films that I made totally on my own.

I won't say which one, but one shot on 'Kubo' took two months to get the expression right. It's ridiculous on some level.

You would find in a lot of Zep stuff that the riff was the juggernaut that careered through and I worked the lyrics around this.

When I write a song, it's all about the riff - the riff first, then the words come later.

I've never been known as a riff kind of artist.

I've got so much material; like, it feels as if every day I'm coming up with so many riffs.

For me, the fun part is riffs, and making the riffs is what I... that's my world. I'm born for that. And when it comes to lyrics, it's an agonizing process.

We'll go in one direction with one album, and then we like to do the opposite right away. But it's not like we ever have an idea before we start - that would be too artificial. It all starts from just sitting in a room and playing.

I'm not the kind of person who would want to go into a studio and manage other people and listen to the phone ringing. That's alien to me.

When I think of the great artists that I admire, they always had something, whether it be their hair, rings, or whatever.