Quotes About Artistry

If you're all confidence, you never evolve or take risks. You're just stagnating in your artistry, whatever you're doing.

I always wanted to be in a rock band, but I wanted to sing like a soul singer.

If I were a rock star, I'd design my own clothes. I'd do it because that's the mark of a true rock star.

I've always said that inside of me there is a rocker that wants to come out, but I'm a romantic rocker.

When you really want a role, you just put your soul in it.

Not every artist is a role model.

I choose roles that are not me.

Love is the root of everything. Whatever you do you must do with love so I also sing with love and perform with love for the love of my audience.

I knew that the artists that I loved the most had something about them that was very unfiltered and very rough.

'Routine' was written on piano, and you can hear that. But then you listen to 'Happy Returns,' and you can tell it's definitely been written on guitar, with that singer-songwriter-y strumming quality.

People don't want to hear the same song 12 times in a row on an album.

Business people want things to be safe but that's rubbish to me. In music nothing should be safe.

I've always been a gurner. I tried to reel it in. You know there was a period when I thought I was going to be a really serious actress, but the gurning... I can't get in control of it. It just runs away with me.

I'm not in any rush. I'm not somebody who, if I write a song, I get it out. That's not something I've ever really quite done.

I don't like to rush my music.

I don't believe in making a record and rushing it.

Well, some people assume when Russell is singing that it is coming from his feelings, but sometimes he's just playing a character.

I thought if I didn't write my own show, I'll rust.

It's very easy to fall into a rut where you're just making things that you don't believe in for other people.

I never try and sound like Sabbath.

I can't even begin to express the joy I get from writing songs, both on my own and with others, I hold it all sacred.

I'm not willing to sacrifice what I've learned and what I'm about just to get played on radio.

If I make a song where I'm happy, I sound completely mad - I think my voice is better-suited for sadder songs.

One day, I was taken into a room with 25 animators, all working on Sadness. They asked me a lot of questions, and they got something of the way I move into the character.