Quotes About Artistry

Me and Skepta, we're kind of from the same world but have totally different-sounding albums. That's why I get funny sometimes when people say I'm a grime artist. Not in a negative way, but I don't feel it's a true representation of the music I'm making.

I kind of miss writing songs the way that I used to write songs, in the sense that I would just sit down, and all these words that told a story would come out. There's one Bon Iver song called 'Blood Bank' that is more representative of an older lineage of songs, which I like and I sort of miss. But it just doesn't happen anymore for me.

I want the things that I create to outshine the person that I am perceived to be, which I think is often not accurate and not really representative of who I am.

As an actress, you're part of what the director is creating, and as a model, you're representing a designer's vision.

This record for the first time - feels like a record that really represents my whole entire life and instead of just a period of my life. And it is really kind of eye opening and it makes me feel really good to hear this record and hear all the years.

I think that 'Flesh and Bone' represents the dance world very authentically. There's always this aspect of drama put on top of it, and it's showcasing the problems of the dance world, but I've had experiences in reality that were written into the show.

As an artist, what you do represents who you are. Coming from a genuine, honest place - that's what I'm trying to do.

An album represents an artist or a band or a group of musicians at any given moment in time. You just produce the music that you feel good about and hope that the audience shows some interest in it.

The Confederate flag is a divisive presence - it's the opposite of everything my artistry means and represents.

However, I need to make music that represents my inner truth and inner voice. I've found myself more able to do that within an international space that has an Indianness at its root but branches out to encompass sounds and cultures across borders.

We decided to self-title it '5 Seconds of Summer' because it really represents who we are and who we want to be as a band. Working on the different songs - writing, recording and watching them all come together - has been one of the most incredible experiences we've had as musicians and we are so proud of how it has turned out.

I don't make films to reproduce reality.

My kind of composing is more like the work of a gardener. The gardener takes his seeds and scatters them, knowing what he is planting but not quite what will grow where and when - and he won't necessarily be able to reproduce it again afterwards either.

All said, even an Aishwarya Rai and Shah Rukh Khan could not reproduce the magic of the original 'Devdas.'

We always found that many people are robots without knowing it. The interpreters of classical music, Horowitz for example, they are like robots, making a reproduction of the music which is always the same. It's automatic, and they do it as if it were natural, which is not true.

I got to go to Ghana, Africa and I got to go to the Dominican Republic. You know, just across the world and see their response to my music.

You have to remember you're an artist and get hungry.

I'm hungry in the ways that every artist is, but I also have this extra layer. I've done a lot of things that were consciously not for money, but because I'm so convinced I'm going to die in my mid-30s, I'm like, 'That's not what's important. Doing cool stuff and having that legacy is what's important.'

You've got Chris Stapleton doing what he's doing, and Sam Hunt, Florida Georgia Line... Everyone has their own lane, and we felt like the falsetto was my lane.

I really don't believe in going too far out of your way to hunt down somebody to do a song.

When I'm shooting a film, I don't look at playback. I don't go and do a scene and then hurry up and watch what I just did. I never look at it so I haven't seen any of it.

I was never in a hurry to make my first album. I knew I wouldn't do it until I knew exactly what I wanted it to be.

I don't want things to be done in a hurry. So I never keep pressure on music directors with deadlines. I ask them to take their own time.

Every time I watch a performance, I'm disgusted with how I've skated. It's very hurtful for me.