Quotes About Artistry

"I'm Black". I think that's the best song I ever made in my whole life.

Creativity is the process that gives life to a new product.

I knew I was going to be composing. It all makes sense in retrospect. But you don't know while you're in the process of improvising your life.

I think there's a time as a writer when you want to see the best things in life, and you go out wherever you go with your dreams as a writer or a composer.

The great fun in my life has been getting up every morning and rushing to the typewriter because some new idea has hit me.

If poetry and the arts do anything, they can fortify your inner life, your inwardness.

All roads for me lead back to Mozart. In his tragically short life, he breathed new life, fire and meaning into every form of music that existed in his time.

Every person has parallel tracks. You have your personal life or your life as an artist, or whatever it is you do.

There's always going to be life experiences that find their way into my songs.

The writer's life is a life of revisions.

Show me the artist anywhere who's had an utterly stable mental life, and I'll buy you hot dinners for the rest of your life.

I learned very quickly that the hard thing in life is to make good films. Technically, filmmaking is the camera and the actor telling the story and that's what I'm more interested in doing.

I don't talk about my personal life in great detail. I write about it in my songs, and I feel like you can share enough about your life in your music to let people know what you're going through.

When you're a songwriter, people wonder about your personal life and the meanings behind the songs, and that can feel pretty invasive, so you become protective about your inner world.

I realized late in life that my twin passions are music and people.

I been doing music my whole life.

I've sung other people's music all my life.

I'm dedicated to bringing to life what the author is trying to portray. I try to make the producers cry and the crew laugh.

Throughout my life, there are four people I've met who were truly original people. The other three were Groucho Marx, Jim Morrison and Pablo Picasso.

I want to continue to produce film, television, and theater, and to make the most amazing music that I've made in my life.

I have spent probably years of time waiting in studio lounges - waiting on a mix, waiting on my time to sing, waiting on, waiting on, waiting on. That's just the nature of life.

Writers do not live one life, they live two. There is the living and then there is the writing. There is the second tasting, the delayed reaction.

One of the things that I am happy about in my life as an artist is that I am not considered a Hispanic artist.

I used to do everything to keep a wall up around myself and keep my life quiet so that I could write.