Quotes About Artistry

Most artists think they're frauds anyway.

You're supposed to be a control freak when you're an artist. That's the whole point of having a vision: Why have one if you're not going to protect it?

When it's time to make music, that's about getting lost for me. To be a control freak is not half as good as being a freak who's casually in control. You're feeling around in the dark for something that feels good.

There's an old Fred Astaire movie where the stage becomes bigger and deeper and more complex. Moments like that really did impact on me and influence me.

When Fred Astaire danced, everything in this world was perfect.

I enjoyed playing with the guys in Free Spirit so much because they really dug into Free material, and I really liked how they expressed it. They have a lot of dynamics.

I think I'm able to do so much because writing is what I love to do. So, often when I have free time, I choose to write and edit.

My favorite thing to do is make music. It's what I spend most of my free time doing.

I find only freedom in the realms of eccentricity.

If I can feel freedom then I can create.

After working on 'Europa,' I found it incredibly freeing to speak English in a film, so it kind of sparked an interest in me as an artist to improve my acting.

It feels very, very good to make a film freely, to work without having to wait years for script approval, without looking over your shoulder.

I make songs that I genuinely enjoy and love, and just put them out kind of freely and carelessly.

I dance as best I can. I try to let the music flow freely through my legs.

I'm more of a freestyle dancer. I like to do my own thing.

I freestyle all my music.

Some people can only freestyle, some people can only make certain types of songs. I can do it all.

I don't got nobody writing my lyrics and that's why I freestyle.

What Shakespeare was able to do in English he would certainly not have done in French.

French cinema has always been very interesting, and it's still very powerful. I think it goes to show that it's great to still have a cinema that doesn't try to emulate, for example, American cinema.

But I don't think of myself as a foreigner or a Frenchman! I just think of myself as a director. Whether I'm French or Australian or whatever, it's really not important.

It's always interesting - how do you actually convey thought through song? We're used to the convention on stage. In film, we used to be used to it, and now sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't. You need to be fresh and really look at the material.

What's good is that my music is different from everyone else's. It's got the soul element, like Duffy, but it's not very retro. It's a contemporary, pop, fresh sound. That's what makes it different.

I love to work with artists that were able to find a brand new name and create something really exciting and fresh.