Quotes About Artistry

I wanted to write songs from the ground up, I wanted to sit at a piano and build around that. But I still have a lot of love for hip-hop, so I want to do more collaborations in that sense.

I've never made R&B. I've never made gospel. I've never made hip-hop - I don't think I'm going to, but I just want to keep challenging myself.

I wouldn't categorize myself as R&B or hip-hop. I don't really know how to categorize myself. I'm still working out where I fit with that stuff. I kind of think of myself as pop.

I'm not gonna force something or fake something to try to get more black people at my shows. I'm not gonna do some big hip-hop crossover.

It's whatever - people like me and Dre are music people, so we're beyond just hip-hop. We're purists. Not everybody who makes beats is a purist.

I am always talking to students and telling them how you have to practice every day because you can't wait for someone to hire you. You need something you do for yourself, something that feeds your creative life.

I'm not the type of person who can be a director for hire, I have to find my own way into it.

I don't want to become a director for hire.

If all I hired were cake decorators, our cakes would just look like cakes that people decorate. We do astounding work at Charm City Cakes and to do that you need people who think in astounding ways. Artists just think in different ways.

I tend to get hired because the filmmakers like what I do, so there's usually not that much conflict about the direction.

I think every filmmaker has his way of working, and I respect that.

Every actor believes in his way of performing.

I'm not a teacher; I'm not a historian. I'm trying to create a world for my characters.

Some of the greatest guitarists, historically, have had no chops, they've just had great taste. I know a lot of musical school kids who just have no taste.

I enjoy acting when you really hit it right.

My approach is to be part of a band that makes music, not hit songs.

You can watch any Hitchcock film and be blown away.

Mr. Hitchcock knew what he was doing.

When you watch a Hitchcock movie, you feel like learning back because there's a master in control.

I don't want The Cure to fizzle out doing 45-minute shows of greatest hits. That would be awful for our legacy.

Im sure most artists say this, but my favorite songs are not the hits.

I don't like working with hitmakers. I don't want hits! You're not even allowed to say that word around me.

It is not about writing those hits again. I am sure I could write them, but it is about the sensibilities.

My hits are not hits.