Quotes About Artistry

Songwriting is my main thing. I know that I'll do that for the rest of my life.

I treat every time I walk on the stage like it's the performance of my life.

Human warmth is perhaps the most lacking in a composer who lives his life in a recording studio.

the writer is initially set going by literature more than by life.

If someone took the finest marble and knew how to shape it artfully: Prometheus' material was lowly clay, but his statues walked.

I've made a life and career as a professional musician.

You make a choice to make music or be an actor, and people automatically think they can have access to your life.

God works funny so it might have just been meant for me to be an artist that doesn't sell two million records. Maybe my records might change somebody's life rather than sell thru the roof.

Creativity runs on automatic, no matter what's happening in other parts of my life. I can't help myself. It's been in me, and it evolves in me over the years. It's a condition in me.

Because I just loved to spend two years of my life in the company of Andy Kaufman and other characters.

I always say that my artist statement is to not be afraid to talk about the messiness - the unpleasant feelings and happenings around my life.

Acting was always a part and faucet of my life. It just comes very natural. I think it's a good thing.

I've always loved the drama and the creating of a role and performance and all that comes with that, but I then also kind of like to have just the white picket fence life if that makes sense.

I used a video camera, and shot on film cameras at school and stuff, but I had a lot more training as a writer. I kind of live like a writer. I get up and I write. I've done that my whole life.

You're not a rock 'n' roll person four hours a day or even when you're on stage. It's become the rhythm of your whole life.

I see my albums as working diaries, as living scrapbooks of me and my life.

You have two types of writers: one like Proust who was locked in his room and wrote the masterpiece. And the other type was Hemingway who celebrated life and also wrote a masterpiece.

I beat a story to within an inch of its life - that's when I know its done. Not before, not after.

All these troubles revolve around the irritable mutual dependence of life and art - with their need and contempt for one another. Of necessity, to create is a temporary state and cannot be possessed.

The craft, the writing of a song, is about creating a story, a life story, a world within three minutes, but that's the frame, if you like, the picture frame. That fascinates me.

I personally do not think that I have ever done, in my working life, anything vulgar. I know I've done provocative things.

In life we try to grow and better ourselves. As an artist, I feel like I've grown tremendously.

I'm never in my life going to do a record that's a tribute to myself. I don't need it.

Kubrick's films have life - they just never die.