Quotes About Artistry

I like to be flamboyant, play characters, wear make-up, play dress up. I was doing that since I was a kid.

I've found an extraordinary thing happens where I flash an entire finished song. I could be walking along, say over that bridge, and I see and hear the whole thing, words and music.

I don't love cinematography that's very flashy because I find that it keeps the audience from becoming a part of the film; it becomes sort of self-reflective.

I never want to become arrogant and think I've made a flawless movie.

GusGus records are flawless.

I write my own songs, and I only see their flaws.

Even at your best, the creative moments are still kind of fleeting.

Fleetwood Mac always take a long time to make a record - you know what.

I really only put stuff out when I have something to say and I feel like I've got a direction and I've got an idea - and that can even take two, two-and-a-half years to flesh out.

I want to act in a Tarantino movie and be a vixen in one of his films. Maybe I'll secretly drop an episode of 'Flesh and Bone' in his mailbox and see what he thinks.

'Float On' was a fine song, but I was still writing the lyrics on the last day we were working on it and deciding if it was something we wanted to put on the record.

It's a big plethora of music floating around in my head all the time, and I'll sit there and write a song.

There was this moment, particularly after I had my first child, where I felt like, 'I don't know if I'll ever make a record, or if this is always going to be something just floating around in my head.'

Actually I dance really well on the floor.

I don't know if a song is going to be a hit or it's going to flop. I never know. I just do the music and if people like it, they like it.

One of my mottos for 'Currents' was 'Give the song what it deserves.' How would this song flourish? If the song could tell me what it wants, what can I give it? I tried not to dictate it with any sensible or logical decisions.

My life is my music, so how can I stop? I put 100 percent into my career. I keep this flow going, and that's important.

I'd rather you listen to my music with a confused face, you know? Rather than you just hearing a good flow to a good beat.

I feel like I kind of go with the flow. The biggest source of pressure is most definitely from myself because my opinion changes every second. One day I'm literally obsessed with all my songs, and the next I despise every one of them and want to throw them all out!

I take a subject, then I go on stage, and whatever is in there comes out. You can edit as you go and continue to work it out on stage until it's something you like, but I never think about it. I just go up and flow.

The key is you don't want to control the controlled stuff too much and you don't want to be too free flowing in uncontrolled situations. That can be a contentious issue with some directors. The joy of my career is I've gotten to work with great directors who get that balance.

I think of my body of work as a story that flows and plays in my mind like a film.

I'd really like to do 'Floyd Collins.' I love Adam Guettel.

The whole point of this game is that everything flows together in one simple movement... it should just flow and be fluid. And that's what I want to bring to the table every single time I fight. And I enjoy making it look, you know, like an art.