Quotes About Artistry

I definitely try to broaden the scope of music. I don't know if it's pop or classical or what, but I'm religiously challenging myself all the time, for better or for worse.

As a musician myself, it annoys the hell out of me to watch an actor trying to play a guitar out of time with the music.

We're approaching things quite differently this time, but it will still sound like Marilyn Manson.

Every time I bring an album it's like I'm bringing in the plague, once again. I don't actually know what category it all falls into, but I've stopped worrying about it.

An artists is someone who does something for the first time, something human, something that touches another.

It's time for artists to take their music back.

I simply channeled a character, this time I allowed the character to inhabit me.

While I do believe I become a technically better writer over time, in others ways writing gets harder because inspiration is finite.

I usually do about five cuts as a director. I haven't ever directed a film where I haven't made five passes through the movie, and that takes a long time.

I very rarely sit down with a guitar and try to write a song. I usually think about it a lot and then I'll try to re-create what was in my head at the time.

I had no desire to become a singer until I heard Billie Holiday. The first time I heard her on a record, it was a revelation. She sounded like a woman singing about herself.

Some days I'll be like, "You know what? Why don't I go to my daughter's studio and make a song?!" And then I don't! I don't know if I would have all the time it takes to put into a song.

Every time I'm not on a project, I'm writing or in the studio or doing gigs DJing.

Most of the time, songs that I write end up being finished in 30 minutes or less.

I don't think I really started to seriously compose until around that time when I was 40.

I can't live with art: I'd spend too much time tweaking it.

It may not necessarily reflect my current frame of mind. Sometimes I have to put myself at the point in time of the voice that I'm trying to sing with.

I love working with actors. If you cast the right person in the right part at the right time, they make you look like a better writer and director than you really are.

I don't choose to analyze what I have done and I think that is the right choice, because then I won't be spending my time creating.

Any time I sit down and write music, the first part of that is always centering myself and thinking about who I currently am.

While I'm quite happy and love doing the atmospheric and quirky stuff, the melodic stuff, I've done quite a lot of. It's also another reason why I try not to do two or three at the same time.

If I had my choice, I'd pick a song that tells a story every time. There is a great deal of pleasure in doing the vocal on a number that you can put feeling into.

When you're a writer, sometimes you have to spend time poking at a part of yourself that normal, sane people leave alone.

It really does take a lot of time to make records, to be in the studio and do all that stuff.