Quotes About Artistry

I'm not a purist - I like films that are narrated and films that aren't, films that are beautiful and films that are clumsy but heartfelt. Mostly, I just like a good story and good characters.

'Beautiful Loser' had a lot of great records. It had a lot of really heartfelt songs on there. But I felt, at the time, it didn't have it's own cohesive sound.

I'll continue to grow and become a singer that melts hearts.

In my heart of hearts I believe I was made to entertain.

As an artist, it is heartwarming to see other artists appreciate your work by making covers and renditions of your original track.

I get some heat for what English people call 'overproduction.' I don't think my older stuff was overproduced, but I do think that sound has dated.

My idea of heaven is not writing.

When I'm creating, that's my heaven. If I haven't designed something every day, it is a failed day - that's how much I love fashion.

I have to have a story I really want to tell, and then it makes sense to put things out there. So if you see, 2018 was again crazy for me. I did 'Lust Stories', 'Made in Heaven' and 'Gully Boy'.

I want to keep my voice young, with nothing heavy.

When my voice isn't doing what I want it to do, it's crushing in the most heavy way possible.

And I'm not trying to write heavy songs.

When you make a heavy record, there should be a point where you say you don't want to share it, but then maybe you come around.

I've been heavy into music.

I love doing concert choreography because everything is about your vision, come heck or high water. Of course, you also take the blame for everything, but it's wonderful to be able to make up dance for dance's sake.

Writing and directing, to me, was the logical evolution from my life as an actor: going from telling someone else's story to actually creating my own. Perhaps one day I will do all three: write, direct, and act in the same production. That might get a little hectic, though.

When you play arenas you can create whatever you want. At a theater the height of the stage and the limitations of the theater can make you feel more separate from the audience.

What I've tended to do is to use my own experiences to get into someone else's mind, like in Wuthering Heights.

I don't want to be held down by genres so much.

With my own stuff, I've always held to the belief that it should take as long as it takes until it feels right.

I feel I've had three careers in one, really. There was the 'Benny Santini' stuff; that came with a general sense of, 'Who the hell is he?' And then there was 'The Road To Hell' stuff, and now there's the blues stuff.

For me, as an actress, being a dancer has helped me. I've done it with my feet bloody.

The majority of my life is 'Guardians,' but being able to clean my brain a little bit by doing something totally different like 'Belko' was incredibly helpful to the creative process.

I'm helping country sound a little more country.