Quotes About Artistry

When I write a song with somebody else in mind, it's putting the cart before the horse. The way I write best is when I allow the song to tell me what it wants to be.

It isn't called dressage any more - it is called 'dancing horses.'

When I did 'Horses,' I never expected to make another album.

I never write about the road. I never write about hotels or anything like that.

I didn't want to do the whole, get the hottest person thing. I wanted to make sure every record felt right.

It would probably take me an hour to two to write it down, get the feel of it, and that's with quite a few changes. It's not really a hard thing for me to do.

I feel like I've been the star of my own show for a while now. I was always putting on shows as a kid, and obviously, my household was really creative.

Even during the golden age of fashion, you had haute couture houses where the designers didn't have money.

There are guitars everywhere around all of our houses. Pianos. Guitars. It's kind of just in our blood. It's in our nature.

I'd love more production houses to encourage artists to create what they want and not just churn things out.

Perhaps all artists were, in a sense, housewives: tenders of the earth household.

I would have hated for my 'Drag Race' moment to have come down to lip syncing a Whitney Houston song.

A choreographer deals with the movement that you create, and with a creative director it's about the story, the stage, the lighting, the costuming, executing someone's idea, choosing how far to go or how little to go, and blending it so that you feel it, you're emotionally effected.

I want to see where and how far I can go as an artist. I look back and see what I've done, and I want to do as much as I can in my lifetime. I love doing it. If I didn't have that passion or love for it, I wouldn't do it.

I'm not sure I would want to be a filmmaker, because I've seen how many people they have to go through in order to create their own movie. It doesn't seem like something I can imagine putting myself through.

I don't think about how many times how many heroines have said 'I love you' to how many heroes on screen and that I am also doing the same. It is how differently I can say the same thing in my own style or how I can bring a new element into it.

A lot of people liked 'Amala,' and that's great. However, I don't think it was a finished album.

Hubris itself will not let you be an artist.

I'm just, 'Hi, I'm Shamir. I'm gonna sing, hug you, then you can buy my album.'

I'm a huge Marvin Gaye fan.

I'm a huge fan of Akira Kurosawa, a big Hitchcock fan.

I love being in the studio, and I am a huge fan of live music. Without writing good stuff in the studio, you have nothing to play live.

I'm a huge fan of the Chainsmokers - like, huge. Like, I would love to collaborate with them.

I'd always been a huge fan of Stephen Schwartz.