Quotes About Artistry

I do my music for me, second for my entourage, and at the end, for the people. It's healthy to work that way.

I don't fight creativity. I don't fight against not being creative. If I'm not being creative, I'm not forcing it.

I feel so lucky that I feel the music is at the forefront of Audioslave, and the songs are the most important thing.

We still play Foreigner songs. I play the songs that I was involved in writing.

First and foremost I am a drummer. After that, I'm other things... But I didn't play drums to make money.

Before I even pick up a guitar, usually the words are done. So I'm not first and foremost a musician. I'm first and foremost a writer.

Writing songs has always been my first and foremost love, and, you know, whether I continue to have success as an artist or not, I will always write songs.

I return to the stage first and foremost because I'm an actor, and I love it.

I feel like I have a responsibility to be true to who I am as an artist, first and foremost.

I'm always going to be an actor first and foremost, but I certainly want to have a voice in the kind of work that I'm doing.

The music has always been the first and foremost element in our career.

I'm a musician, first and foremost.

I have always seen myself as a choreographer first and foremost.

Our chief aim is to make beautiful things that will last forever.

Forget acting. It's all about rock 'n' roll.

The big thing that everyone forgets, you're famous and on TV and everything, but I think there's something very rewarding to be able to write a song, record it, and have it turn out as you heard it in your head, or even better.

When I became a parent I forgot about the part of myself which was very emotional, very dour a little depressed - but very good at writing emotional songs.

Whenever we do stuff with Die Antwoord, it's kind of like... I made a lot of music before this group that I'm kind of bored of and forgot about, and everything with Die Antwoord I really love. It's the first time I've made music where, even the first songs we made, I really adore all those songs, and I'm proud of them.

I am not scared of being forgotten, because I work to express myself through my music.

I want to be an actor - I don't want to be a celebrity. They are two different things, and people have forgotten that they are different.

In a certain sense, every time you sit down to write a song, there's a fear that you've forgotten how to do it.

You can't rush an art form.

Intermittently in my concert format, I sing a little jazz, a little scatting.

One of the things I did learn from 'The Epic' was that we don't have to feel so much pressure to conform to set formats. A song doesn't have to be three minutes and 30 seconds.