Quotes About Artistry

I do admit to being challenging, but it's always for the work, it's never personal. I will walk out on a scene if it's all lit and ready to go but it's not happening.

I'm much happier behind the camera.

Well, I'm never happier than when I'm acting.

The more I can stay on the creative side, the happier I am.

Being on set for me is my happiest time.

Ultimately, you're happiest in yourself when you make your best work.

I'm not the happiest when it comes to my music.

You can never tell when an artist really will take up someone's work and work with it happily.

I like my raps, but I'm never too happy with some of 'em because I feel like they could be better.

The music is the easy part. The business is the hard part.

I have a hard time working with other people with my own songs because I have a pretty complete idea of how it should be. It's usually just me multi-tracking which is better than coercing someone into doing my idea.

I have a hard time saying I'm going to make a whole record of just rock-out songs, because that gets boring, you know? And my voice doesn't scream very well.

Personally, I have a hard time playing live. A big part of it is because the lyrics are really private.

They've always had a hard time categorizing me, it seems, even though most of my stuff is country of one kind or another - usually country spilling over into the old adult-contemporary charts.

But for a song like 'Paprika,' I typically feel like I need to experience anguish a lot of the time to feel like I've put in enough hard work.

It's hard work to find your own voice and not to copycat anything.

The easier it looks on screen, the more hard work goes into making it so.

I used to always read my stuff. And I could never understand why artists would say, 'Oh, I can't read my older stuff.' I'd go, 'Are you crazy? I could read my stuff forever!' Now it's a little harder.

Sometimes the better the writing, the harder it is to play because you really want to service it.

The hardest part of being an artist is discovering what it is you do differently.

Harlem World' is all about me doing my thing.

I have been part of a lot of recreations. So, I don't think there's any harm in doing recreations if they are done in the correct manner.

I sing and play guitar and harmonica. I've been doing it for a long time.

My harmonies on 'Me & My Dog' are a little extra.