Quotes About Artistry

What's important to me is that my songs can exist without any material anything. It's very reflective of my ideology.

I had deeper, more reflective songs on the first album.

The way I make music reflects the way I think.

Music reflects the time that it's being made in, and so certainly, the music that's being made in 1986 by a 14-year-old kid will reflect some magic of 1986 for him if he's an inspired and creative musician.

I'm really growing as a woman, and it just reflects in the music.

I just think that when you've been singing for 30 years, which I have been, you just want to find different things you can do with your voice. It's a constant journey. It's not like any one album that you make is who you are. It just reflects that particular day.

I'm used to writing and performing my own material; doing someone else's is refreshing.

I refuse to dance. And I can't dance anyway. I'm not in a band for that.

I don't read music. I refuse to learn how to do that. I barely know half the chords I'm playing. I like being naive when it comes to that.

I know of some guitar-based rock bands that refuse to record anything that they can't play live. But some of the best stuff I come up with are studio-based performances - bringing out whatever accident I had in the studio and building a song around that.

If critics were harder on the musicians that they love, there would be better songs. But as they grow older and they lose their talent, critics refuse to let them know that and protect them, and they get to the point where they put out music that just isn't up to the levels where they've already been.

I refuse to do something that's not me as an artist.

I refused to wear make-up on TV. I wanted my music to be heard.

I've refused roles because they're too simplistic.

After I made 'Oh Carolina' in the 1990s, the record company wanted me to copy that sound, and I refused.

With each piece I've completed I have worked to make it intact, and each of them has been an equal high. It's like children. A mother refuses to pick out one as a favorite, and I can't do any better with the dances.

When rock came along the lyrics and melodies became less important and it bothered me to think that perhaps they might not regain the value they have to music - they are music.

That was the big secret. Walt would do things over and over again, with no regard to money, to get things perfect.

I hold all of the songs that I have had the pleasure of recording and performing in high regard.

Writing a screenplay needs to be more than words on a page - and by the way, I think the words on the page are something you have to try to execute on the highest level you can; I'm not dismissing that by any regard.

Collider is a company that I formed with a movie producer, Alisa Tager, and we just wanted to create a place where writers could come and develop their ideas without a regard to limitations of form.

I believe Sam Peckinpah is one of the greatest filmmakers of all time, and I hold him in high regard.

I am a writer and always was; being a writer is an integral part of my identity. Being published, being well regarded, is a component of that identity.

I got into an argument with someone because I said I think 2Pac will be regarded as a great poet. They said he was just a punk gangster. People said the same thing about Francois Villon, and he's now considered the best French Romantic poet of all time.