Quotes About Artistry

I try not to think too hard about music. I like to see where it goes. I try not to give it a direction. I figure out what it is as it's forming. I don't have any goal in mind other than to make the best music I can.

If you want to write serious books, you must be ready to break the forms.

There is art in everything - industry, education, play, all are forms of art.

If you want to write serious books, you must be ready to break the forms, break the forms.

Before, you only had one Public Enemy and one Rakim and one Salt 'N' Pepa. Now, people have got the formula, and some of them are just doing it for the cheque. It's kind of watered down.

We don't want to become like country artists where there's a formula.

For songs to be big, I don't think there's a certain formula to it.

Writing is not my forte, but I am good at visualising.

Luckily, each generation brings forth great writers, actors, directors, and designers.

Fortunately, the music from the first record really connected with people, and I was really proud of that.

We're not the corporation of Foster the People. We're a band.

Fabric is the foundation of a collection.

Make-up is such a huge fragment of my career and image.

In 'The Greatest Showman,' I'm back doing VFX myself, allowing me to craft exactly how something looks, one frame at a time.

The worst frame of mind to be in is what the fans like or what the fans want, because then you lose the authenticity of who you are as an artist and who you are as a person.

I think there is a problem in France that anyone who is not European, you want to know where they come from and why do they come from somewhere or why they speak English or why they are human. That's the big barrier for all of us that are coming from some far, far away countries. But at the end of the day, we are all artists.

I loved working with Chris Nolan. I love working with Lawrence Kasdan. Dan Gilroy. Francis Lawrence I love.

People like Frank Zappa were amazing for us Brits.

Think of Frank Capra and Preston Sturges. They used the same actors over and over again.

I learned my phrasing from Frank. I loved him so much.

We said to Frank Farian, 'You don't let us sing on the album. Don't do this anymore.' We don't want to live like this.

I was told all my life to sing like Aretha Franklin, or Adele, cover myself with black clothing and show more soul, sing bigger.

I think everybody goes off and does their own vision. And I don't take responsibility for other people's work, frankly. It's bad enough taking responsibility for my own.

And frankly, when I made that record, hit songs were not what I was trying to achieve.