Quotes About Artistry

When you look at a movie, you look at a director's thought process.

I've worked with some of the greatest filmmakers in the history of the medium, and they all have something in common: a quality that is creative, comfortable, and thoughtful.

I'm a drag queen who is thoughtful and serious about drag in addition to being funny, ambitious, and glamourous.

The man who never in his mind and thoughts travel'd to heaven is no artist.

That's my actual payment, the fact that I can actually make something that I actually enjoy and put on repeat, and it's not related to anything else or anyone else's thoughts and ideas, it all came from me; I just love that aspect of it.

When I got to write for the 'Battlefield' record, it was almost therapeutic. I had gone through a few things in the two years prior and it was really nice to take those thoughts and emotions and get them out. I definitely want to hone that side of my artistry.

I want to write my own thoughts and make my own music. I need to experiment with my sound and style.

When you listen to my music, you're going to know that you're getting the real me, my real thoughts and feelings... I want people to be like, 'Oh, he's fresh out with his music for it to be this good.'

David Bowie worked with Brian Eno and dressed up in extraordinary clothes, but he was also a brilliant songwriter who captured the thoughts of a generation. He was hugely successful, without compromise.

I've become increasingly confidant in following intuitions ahead of thoughts as I produce more records.

I enjoy it too much - even if I knew I'd never get a book published, I would still write. I enjoy the experience of getting thoughts and ideas and plots and characters organised into this narrative framework.

Ideas and thoughts and creativity is more of who I am than football.

I've followed the lives of great musicians and have learned that you don't have to always write in pain. You have all of your past experiences, feelings, and thoughts that you can turn on when you need them and turn off when you don't.

The Tonys are the once-a-year shot for all of these shows and artists who work so diligently every single performance but only for a thousand or so people at a time. This gives them the opportunity to perform to millions of people.

To have everything written for you... It's not really creating. That's why I think symphony drummers are so limited. They 're limited to exactly what was played a hundred years before them by a thousand other drummers.

I go through a thousand songs to find ten for a new record.

Three thousand people singing back your songs is an incredible feeling.

I'm gonna put out another album and then another album after that. And then I'm gonna put out a mixtape, and then I'm gonna put out another ten songs, and then I'm gonna put out a hundred more songs and a thousand songs after that.

I've got a hundred thousand things on my mind that are taking precedence over trying to make pop collaborations.

Being in the studio is like painting, you know, you can really take your time, and try different things, and kind of go deep into it.

Finally, when someone asked [Pollack] how he knew when a painting was finished, he replied, "How do you know when you've finished making love?

There is only one thing left for you to do," John Sloan advised one artist. "Pull off your socks and try with your feet.

You're born naked, the rest is drag.

I want to make sure I continue to make good music that my mom and everybody around me can be proud of.