Quotes About Artistry

I think you can really gauge my state of mind by listening to my albums.

I gauge if I can create a different a woman. But sometimes, you feel the character isn't given enough space to perform.

As an artist, there are times when you need to take a leap of faith... For me, it's important that the gaze is correct.

I don't ever consciously change gears when I play jazz or classical. It's all music.

I'm a big Bob Dylan fan. I'm also a blues geek.

On my record cover, you can barely see my face. I still think I look really geeky.

The ad business has some of the great artists, but because there are so many, its hard to determine the true gems.

I got the performance gene.

When I'm writing music, I'm not playing a character. I'm not Alice Cooper or Gene Simmons or someone like that, who has acknowledged that they are writing music for a character.

Actors have a magic gene within them - I think they're the finest descendants of rogues and vagabonds - and it's all too easily forgotten what the acting legacy is.

I think everything that I've ever played has somehow trickled down from Gene Krupa.

I don't think a lot of artists have the freedom that I have when it comes to dressing in general.

But it's just that the whole country is making generally lousy films these days and has been for quite a while. That's the big problem that we all have to think about.

I've generally got a good eye for design and proportion.

Brainfeeder makes me want to keep generating better music.

My family's lineage is five generations of artists who never made it.

It's hard to compare actors from different generations.

I never claimed to be a generic artist, period. I never wanted to be a generic artist.

People are getting force-fed commercial, generic records that are just safe, safe, safe.

It's very important that when you have a designer like Marc Jacobs, who is a genius, you give him complete freedom.

I don't want to compare myself to him - I don't want people to see me as this great genius - but when I see Charlie Chaplin's movies there is a combination of drama, naivety and social meaning that I can see in myself, at a different level.

Bernard Herrmann was a genius, a great, great composer.

I'm a genius. I'm like Prince.

I love David Fincher and I think he's a genius.