Quotes About Artistry

I wanted to act, dance and perform more than anything, and I wanted to do it for the rest of my life.

Sometimes what I'm writing is more important to me than the rest of my life. It's more important to me that I'm writing well than anything else.

If I have to hold a note for a long time, I imagine it as moving and spinning, for the note has to have life. In a way, a singer actually refreshes a note with every beat that it's held.

But I also live to perform and I've been performing my whole life, whether it's been in sports or you know in band or with my singing.

There's so much more you can do with the dynamics of songs when they're simple... I think it was what I needed in my life - there was a lot going on, a lot of layers.

I've been performing my whole life.

Everything I've done and everything I've gained in my life has been with my music.

I don't talk about my personal life. But the relationships I've had have usually been with other musicians. It's just easier that way.

One night, Don Henley called, and I told him, 'I'm washing dishes and bike shorts.' He said, 'It's in the domestic exercises of life that one will find the biggest inspiration.' And he was right.

I've been making shoes my whole life.

I never had a movie that I wanted to do turned down in my whole life. I always write the script first so it speaks for itself.

At the beginning I didn't even really think about making a movie [Dream of Life]. I was just thinking of documenting somebody.

Definitely giving it my heart and soul from my life as I see it. That whole album [My Brother] is like that, that's how I feel.

I feel like in my music I can be a rebel. I can say things I wouldn't say in real life.

I'm not ready to retire, and I think I have some of the best music of my life coming up.

I've certainly collaborated with others for their songs and it's fun. To me, it's exciting to write from a place that doesn't have to be so true to my life and is more just storytelling.

Describing the person I am would best be through music. When I'm up on stage and I'm singing my heart out, I am always reminded of life's best things.

I feel like I have the greatest life an artist could dream of.

At certain point, you realize it's easy to play music for the rest of your life: just don't sell your guitar. Maybe you get a day job, but as long as you have a guitar, you can play.

The blank space can be humbling. But I've faced it my whole professional life. It's my job. It's also my calling. Bottom line: Filling this empty space constitutes my identity.

Art is action. The way I live my life to its highest degree is by writing, the practice of art.

I make a lot of music with other desis - that's hugely important to me, but it can't be the sum total of who I am and what I do. It's not accurate; it doesn't reflect my life experience.

I'd like to do voiceovers my whole life. I get to kind of create a character and go in and play.

It's nice to sometimes get things out of life, rather than stealing from other artists. I'm trying to steal from the real people.