Quotes About Artistry

Remember this: one can be a strict logician or grammarian and at the same time full of imagination and music.

Musically, I would never run dry. Any time I sit down to an instrument, I could write a song.

My process is to be by myself when I record. It's quite an emotional performance to pull off when someone else is in the room. I prefer to go away and have my own time with it, bring it in later.

To wish for the crazy times one last time and freeze it in the memory of a camera is the least a great artist can do.

It takes me forever to write songs most of the time.

I came up during that time when music, to me, was really music. It wasn't about talking about a woman and calling them a derogatory name or something like that. It was real music.

If the playwright knew every little thing about his play, why bother? There must be discovery all the time, otherwise why bother to do it?

That's a very real feeling - that I don't have a story to tell. I'm not a pure storyteller. I have a tough time with story.

I'm one of the artists that even though I love my soulful stuff, I love to turn up and have a good time and that's another side of me. As long as it doesn't veer away from who I am, I'm down with it.

What the rest of us see only under the influence of mescalin, the artist is congenitally equipped to see all the time.

Nothing can rival the incredible rush the act of creation brings. Of crafting something you know is destined to be great for all time.

There's a huge difference between who I am when I make music and who I am the rest of the time.

If I hadn't been a singer, I might have been a photographer or an artist. But it's singing I love. I sing all the time, and I feel really good that I've expressed myself.

With song titles, I try to keep a healthy sense of humor while saying something at the same time.

We're lucky to be making films. My crew and I have been working together for a long time. I think that that's what emanates.

The stage is not for me to practice. I'm not that artist. You practice at home and when you get on stage, it's time for a conversation.

Why I was so intrigued with Red Skelton was because he was able to make you cry and laugh and the same time. That was power.

Someone told me once that Lucinda Williams takes six years between albums, and that's what stuck to me; it's like, you really are a factory. You don't do things to make them, on your own time.

My favorite record of all time is Fleetwood Mac's Tusk. It's made up of a bunch of songs that don't really sound the same, but they all go really well together.

My goal every time I make a record is just to make the funkiest, the best music I could possibly make, both lyrically, and music-wise.

Gish was the best representation of where we were at the time.

I'm writing new music all the time. I'm just not writing pop stuff. It's not my goal.

I've tried to stay true to myself this whole entire time, and I think I've represented myself as creatively as I could with what I got on the show.

Even I don't know what I'm saying most of the time.