Quotes About Artistry

I dedicate all my time to music. And I'm glad that it's paying off in some ways.

I'm just making music, and I'm paying my bills.

I've got my ideal job. I like to sing, I like to dance, I like to bang drums and dress up, and someone pays me - it's incredible.

Any conversations we hear about 'So who are Pearl Jam marketing to?' are despicable.

'Ten' by Pearl Jam is still by far one of my favorite albums and is a big part of what inspired me to learn guitar.

When I close my eyes and think of a writer, I don't imagine him or her as someone who is sitting above me on a pedestal, blindfolded, holding the scales of justice in one hand! No, I see sentences.

People want to peg you as alternative R&B when they hear soul or see the color of your skin. It's comfortable when people see artists of color or artists that come from a different country to put that brand on us. It's just not as linear as that.

I pick up my guitar and play. Something might come, and then the pen comes out. Then an edit, until something comes out that you're actually satisfied with.

I think now, whenever I write, there is nothing that will really compare to pen and paper.

When once the itch of literature comes over a man, nothing can cure it but the scratching of a pen.

I was always a writer, by which I mean I was always scribbling away, doing something with pen and paper.

I'm not happy unless I have a pen in my hand, it's really that simple.

Before I could even hold a pen I was singing.

Never leave a pen around me - it will be gone.

What happens to us all, I think, when we pick up a pen, is that we just become snobs.

I have to write a first draft with a fountain pen before I type it up as a second.

I write with pen and paper, my first draft, on legal pads.

It seems like if they'd given Bob Dylan a pen and paper in the cradle that he would've come up with a great song. I'd love to write songs like that.

I have always been a pencil.

The best ideas come from sitting down with a piece of paper and a pencil.

If you give me an eyeliner, I can create 40 looks with that - whether it's liquid or pencil.

Computers don't create computer animation any more than a pencil creates pencil animation. What creates computer animation is the artist.

Whether it's digital or physical, a pencil or a pen: line work. Humans are making things. And out of that comes the entire designed world we live within.

I have five, six, seven things I do before those lines are in my brain. I say them like I'm a robot; I sing them. I put a pencil in my mouth, and I say them. I cook. I play with a cushion and say them - so they really are inside of me.