Quotes About Artistry

If I want to say I'm a man for three minutes, then be it: I'm a man for three minutes.

When a sketch comes into this three-dimensional form and everybody contributes, it's really fantastic.

I mean, can I really create a full, three-dimensional character? I don't know anymore. I'm certainly going to try.

Labels need to work with artists to help them achieve their best work, not to jam records out that are half-baked or three-quarters baked.

That's the way I've always been, between the albums: For two- or three-year gaps I wouldn't pick up a guitar. And when I don't pick up a guitar for a year or two, that's when the songs fall out.

I was growing up listening to Queen. Freddie Mercury threw those incredible melodies into his songs.

There are a lot of things in Queen albums that you don't expect; that's why we threw them in.

I don't think I threw myself into music because I had the best intentions; it was because I was really angry.

We never threw a record together. Each record was done really seriously, as if our life depended on it.

The song 'Almost Lover' is very important to me, because when I wrote it, I threw everything away. That kind of set the bar as a writer, as a singer, as a person.

Hopefully, everyone has the same feeling I do when they perform. I get such a thrill from getting to play make believe. My favorite place to be is trying to be somebody else.

Working with Thundercat was really a thrill.

When you're in a creative flow with somebody - and I had this back in architecture school - you're just so passionate about what you're doing, and if that other person is just as passionate, you'll be madly in love with them. It's just that thrill of creating.

It's a thrill to see the birth of an artist.

It's such a thrill in a relationship to be able to collaborate creatively. It's very romantic, and I like it.

I'm thrilled that country music fans like my stuff, but so do a lot of people outside of country music, people who just love music. My goal is more to reach music lovers than to appeal to a genre. I love country music, and I'm proud to represent it, but I don't obsess over it as a category.

I always wanted to thrill people with my dancing - just as how K-pop dancing thrilled me.

I am thrilled to have been able to put together this new album. I listened to everything I had recorded in the 24 years with Elektra, and then just took all the ones I am mad about.

I don't go there much. You're thrilled that people would recognize what you're doing in such a grand kind of way. But, just like you don't know if anybody's really going to like what you're doing when you put a record out or if anybody's going to pay attention to it, you can't really go there.

It hasn't been smooth or delightful every minute, there were lean years and rough years, but it's been exciting and good and I'm thrilled to be an actress and a singer and to have spent my life this way.

I'm certainly not thrilled with everything the Eagles did, but there are some things I'm quite proud of.

Bands are always told, 'Nobody wants to hear your new stuff - just stick with the meat and potatoes - that's what people come for.' That's only half-true. I know if I went to see U2, I would be thrilled if they did 'I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For,' but I'm equally as thrilled to hear their new stuff.

The song that's affected me the most profoundly is probably Michael Jackson's 'Thriller,' or, more specifically, the couple seconds of instrumental break before Vincent Price starts 'rapping.'

Sometimes it feels as if the artist hasn't done the real work of engaging with the material. Film noir can't just play off looks and attitudes. A thriller needs a dose of genuine suspense. It does not have to be literal, but it does have to feel genuine. Otherwise the artist is just leeching off the form.