Quotes About Artistry

I fly to London or the U.S. to record my music nearly once a month.

I wouldn't have been in the mind-set to do another 'Fly.'

Dilla could flip a boring record and make you feel like you were flying.

To create a new resume of films and expressions is the only focal point for 2014 for me.

I just want to focus on creating more music.

I'm interested in directing attention and focus, explored through playing cello.

I always felt that the music sells by itself. The music has always been the successful aspect on my career, and that means that, to me, I can always still stay very focused on music.

I was never in the business of trying to put my name out there - I was really focused on music and records and being in the studio.

I always tell myself, 'When I'm working on my record, I won't cut my hair.' I get so focused on the music that I'm not really going to the hair shop and getting cut up. I just have one thing to focus on.

I don't have the desire to just keep every record and put it out. That's not what I do. I make records for people; that's why I just continue to be consistent, where a lot of the other top writers, they kind of fell off because they started focusing on their own careers as artists. That's not where my head is at.

Somebody who doesn't understand my directing style could be pretty taken aback by it if I start going off the schedule and focusing on something because I'm inspired in the moment.

I do so much music that it's like a fog, and I can't even remember all of it.

People still kind of think of me as like a folk artist, but on the first record, I truly was deferring to other people to produce me.

I like a lot of soul, but I also put a lot of folk into what I do.

The folks at Curb Records didn't have respect for me and I was there for 15 years.

If you do something, you should do it because you love it, and you should follow your heart and make it how your heart wants it to be made. But it's a difficult world, especially for musicians.

Personally, I'm not too fond of remakes.

I'm not fond of the idea of doing ballet for ballet's sake, because dancers get exploited and they're not paid well. They do it for the love.

Music is the one part of the entertainment business where you can't fool anybody into buying a record.

When I'm writing, I look like a fool because the parts are moving through me and I'm crying and laughing and making faces.

I've heard of actors like De Niro and Streep who stay in character all day long. And Daniel Day-Lewis did it for 'My Left Foot.' I don't do that myself.

Even as a footballer, I was always being creative.

The greatest footballers take the sport into the world of art, of performance.

Daisuke Takahashi has really good footwork.