Quotes About Artistry

When I hear something that comes from me that makes me fall down off my chair, it's not often.

All the 'Scarface' beats that you hear Mobb Deep sample, that was my idea.

I don't take the roles home with me. I don't work that way. I don't understand that; I mean, I really don't when I hear that.

I just want people to feel what I feel when I hear music that I love.

When I hear people who love my music and are trying to copy it, it sounds strange to me because it sounds so simple, made by other people. It took me a lot of years to find the balance, to find a way to be on the edge of being accessible but at the same time having the echo of a deep, more complex world.

When you play, it's like you know that there are people out there who are hearing it for the first time, and I think that's really important.

Hearing Radney Foster was big for me, like hearing Al Green or R.E.M. for the first time.

I think I always had a musicality, and I think I could tell a good song from a bad song. And I would appreciate hearing something that was new to me.

I wanted to make something that I wanted to hear that I wasn't hearing.

I enjoyed hearing people do their own songs. I became attracted to singer-songwriters. I became interested in them as people; was curious about what they wanted to say.

I really like to hear actors talk about acting, but I don't really like hearing myself talk.

I was always good at hearing complete arrangements in my head.

It's tough hearing your voice on the radio, on a chorus, and knowing that people think it's another artist.

I was hearing music in my head and trying to play it on the clarinet, but it didn't match.' Then, literally the first day, it did with the saxophone. I was like, 'Oh man, that's what I've been trying to do; this is what it's supposed to sound like.'

He comes in on the beat and plays on top of the beat. I think when Prince makes love, he hears drums instead of Ravel.

But at heart, I am more than a cinematographer.

Fashion breaks my heart.

When I make an album I love to spend a long time making it and put my heart and soul into it.

Never try to copy other writers, and never try to have a formula. It has to come from your heart and soul.

I hope I can become a good enough filmmaker where I can take a script that I'm not 'heart and soul' into, but I could still make something really great out of it.

If a movie musical came along and the part was right and somebody wanted me to do it, I would do it in a heartbeat.

If they're singing about heartbreak, they've lived it.

Just because I'm a girl and it's pop doesn't mean I have to write about love and heartbreak.

I was once called a hack, and when you put as much emotion into a piece of work as I do, to be called a hack is really heartbreaking.