Quotes About Artistry

They had me doing Beach Boys remakes and all that. I was basically a marionette.

Ryan Tedder is just a beast.

I'll just write with no music, no nothing and then try to apply it to music and sometimes, a beat will speak to me.

I'll be honest. We copied everyone... the Beatles, the Bachelors. It was the only way people would even listen to you.

I'd love to work with Drake. I got Drake beats.

The DJ thing is just a way for me to perform my songs in public. It put me on the map, and a lot of people discovered me because of my DJing and later found out that I made beats.

I'm always in the studio with my dad. I've written a few songs. I'll start off writing rhymes, then freestyles, then I add in beats.

It's interesting because all I want to do is make music. I want to sit in my room, play the guitar, make beats, sing... And I have never made less music than when being a musician became my job.

I pick simple beats because I need space for me to work.

Every year, I assign myself to make a beautiful art piece which is my musical project for the year.

The difference between a beautifully made failure and a beautifully made hit is who you've got playing the leads.

I have become infected, now that I see how beautifully a book is coming out of all this.

I write fast, I write beautifully, I write convincingly.

I don't like totally free jazz, unless it's done by somebody like Coltrane, who did bebop and cool jazz, so he was allowed to go out there.

What I ended up doing was becoming an actor who didn't mind doing other people's words.

I'm still a kid in his bedroom, writing songs and playing them.

You don't go out and play Beethoven's 'Opus 111' without having rethought about it every time you play.

I'm a big Beethoven fan, and you'll struggle to find a three-minute song on any of his stuff.

I never really tell anyone what I'm writing beforehand because I usually don't know what it will be.

When I was in high school, I used to beg my teachers to let me create films and plays instead of writing essays. I think they were at least happy I was excited about school.

I feel like you just need to keep writing until the writing itself just begins to take shape.

You're shadowed by your own dream, especially as you get older, of trying to create something that will last in poetry. And so, you're working on its behalf.

After winning 'K-pop Star' and debuting as a singer, I had a team of people who helped me. But then I realized that to do my own music, there's work that I myself had to take care of and no one can do it on behalf of me. So I started writing my own music.

I don't remember being afraid of anything in making films.