Quotes About Artistry

My intention is to make music that you can enjoy at all times.

I was a very good girl for a long time, that's what really drew me to acting. The stage was the perfect place to be outrageous, to be sad, to be angry, to be all these different things.

I'm never trying to be commercial or accessible, or saying "let's do this weird stuff, but at the same time we gotta do this safe stuff".

There's a lot of hurry up and wait. But it gives you time to write a song.

We never write anything with themes. We just write the same rubbish all the time.

I love pop music. It's not easy to write a good pop song. It may be easier to put out a fake jazz album, as Sting does from time to time.

I really had a great time working with Modest Mouse, just because of the people. I loved writing songs with Isaac Brock, and Jeremiah Green is probably my favorite musician that I've worked with.

Guys like Otis Blackwell and Bobby Darin, and all the guys who were writing songs for Elvis at the time, just hanging around, writing songs, talking about music.

I think I've spent so much time playing characters that are so far away from me and learning how to technically build and how to technically put something on top of you.

I have tried, in all the ways I can, to make timeless music.

There is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique. And if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium and it will be lost.

Writers possess magic. It's in their w

Life is denied by lack of attention whether it be to cleaning windows or trying to write a masterpiece.

I love to act and put on a show, but you're playing a character all the time. For music, it's really just me being myself.

Getting to make the music, and having a good time doing it, is the most important thing to us.

Food to me, in one word, is 'creativity' or 'expression.' It's simply, 'This is who I am at this point in time, and this is what I want to cook for you.'

You can expect nothing in being a musician, and you have to be just very thankful every time it goes positively for you.

As a filmmaker, you aspire to want to make movies that can hopefully stand the test of time, but you never know when that will happen or if that will happen.

I always go in very emotionally when I'm doing music. Sad or happy, I'm always into it. I have a hard time writing for other people, writing with someone else in mind.

I enjoy the process of composing music. The first time I hear a song, it has to bring a smile to my lips. You have to tap your feet and be able to sing the song.

We all feel love, and that might sound kind of corny, but I really feel that's what joins musicians together around the world.

I jerk off inside books, and give life to words, leaving concepts stuck together you've probably never heard

Not all of us are painters but we are all artists. Each time we fit things together we are creating - whether it is to make a loaf of bread, a child, a day.

Directing is like guitar playing. That's a unique mind-set and talent, unto itself. I like the idea of putting everything together to make a great movie.