Quotes About Artistry

I'll never quit playing country music, or at least acknowledging it, always, as the cornerstone of what I am.

People ask you all the time, 'Why do you do this? Why don't you quit, man, take your money and go home?' I just do it because I love making music.

I would never quit comedy to make money. I've been doing it, like, 30 years. I still love it. That's my life.

It was quite a shot in the head to do the album and then have it shot down by nonmusical idiots.

I spent quite a bit of time in choirs, growing up, and in the world-touring music group Anuna.

Call me the Scatman. I do quite a bit of scattin'.

I genre-hop quite a lot. I love manipulating genre and deconstructing it and making it irrelevant. Genreless music is great because it means you get to write in any genre that you like.

Often, with our music, there's quite a lot going on, so people hear melodies that sound up and catchy, and production, and maybe don't really listen to what the songs are about, so it's nice to sing a song like 'The Currents' and really mean it.

I love performing on my own scores. I do it quite a lot.

I tend to spend quite a lot of time on the film scores that I do.

It's my privilege to work with an actor like Vikram who gets into the skin of the character he is playing, so much so that after the shoot it takes him quite some time to get back to his real self.

I do not quote my own movies. I think I would be pretty insufferable if I did.

I love the exhilaration of feeling a pull quote come out of your mouth. The words just taste better.

I'm not in a race with anybody to make the biggest hit movie anymore. I am just trying to tell stories that I can stay interested in for the two years it takes me to supervise the writing and to direct them.

I see all these professional photographers out at the racetrack, and there's all these people across the world, taking really cool pictures and you're like, 'Man, I want to create that!' I had that mindset when I first grabbed a camera.

I feel like I've got a nice little niche where I stay just below the radar, which is perfect. I just don't want to be known for anything other than music.

I've always been making music, but I sort of went under the radar. I kind of disappeared... I was never really that comfortable with the music industry. I loved the idea of being able to express myself creatively - but the rest of it never really sat well with me.

If the choice is between doing something supercool and having no one hear it and doing something equally cool and tricking people into putting it on the radio, I don't think the second option is some big sellout.

Everything ain't just about the radio.

We're more into expressing ourselves than making radio hits.

I don't want to be subsumed into popular culture and played on the radio next to some garbage music.

The music that is played on the radio all the time or written about in magazines has nothing to do with musicianship.

I don't want to hear songs about how sunshiny things are. I don't like songs that feel like radio candy... I like the ones that make you think, laugh or cry - they pull some kind of emotion out of you.

Everything I do feels like It's going to end up being in Radiohead.