Quotes About Artistry

I'm growing as an artist and expanding my range, and not pigeonholing myself by doing the same thing, over and over.

I want to entertain, but I'm interested in a whole range of feelings.

Kanye has this discursive way of working, getting input from a range of people, that I thought was really cool.

I would never ever sing at all if I could get away with it. I had pitch problems, no range. So what I did was manipulate the sound... that way you couldn't tell that I wasn't very good.

People sometimes ask who I would cast in my books and I never have any idea. I don't think I could ever write a book thinking of it as a movie the whole time. This would be like building a house and filling it with furniture just so you could have blueprints.

To be able to make furniture has always been a fantasy of mine.

I really do build furniture to be used, you see, to be lived with.

There was a time when I had spiky hair and I was doing Indian-influenced R&B fusion songs.

I'm a musichead. My favorite Gaga song of all time is 'You & I' - it might not be the popular vote in terms of charts or sales, but it's my favorite.

She's been around so long and she doesn't disappoint ever. Gaga also thinks out of the box and that's what the best artists do.

If you want to be taken seriously and gain credibility, you really do have to try and write yourself. I don't want to do an album of covers and stuff.

We will not go out there and make negative music for selfish gain.

I grew as an actress, and I feel I gained a lot, whenever I have worked with any great director in the past.

Fans are your greatest enemies because they tend to bracket you. And the moment someone expects I should do something, I break out. I often tell fans who say, 'Make a 'Gulal 2' or 'Gangs 3,' that I am living my dream, not theirs.

I'm not a gangster. I'm a musician.

Quite understandably, people think that if there's a six-year gap or whatever, that it's taken me six years to make the album. It's not really like that at all.

What's the point of doing a brilliant Hedda Gabler in my back garden if no one will ever see it?

I think in the same way when I'm cooking, when I'm gardening, when I'm choosing fabrics. It's a way of living.

Erroll Garner is one of the few musicians I believe has a sense of humor in his music.

I want to do films that challenge me. I want to do what the actors I look up to are doing - the Gary Oldmans and Daniel Day-Lewises.

I learned that the songs that mean the most to me are the songs that I write by myself. While there were people I wrote really well with, particularly Gary Nicholson and Delbert McClinton, and I really enjoyed the experience, I came away from it feeling like I need to write by myself.

There's something great about driving through studio gates and leaving all your responsibilities behind.

I think if you listen to my album, you could probably gather that I am not the most gung-ho conservative-ideology-leaning person.

'Columbinus' was four years of my life, collaborating with a lot of people and gathering lots of information.