Quotes About Artistry

I have learned to do what I want without hurting anyone. I've learned how to get away with it, with everything. I'm getting away with what I'm trying to do on film but also in my own way.

With all the hurts they've been through, they find a loving way and a way to put their mind on something greater. That's what makes a good artist, a good singer: because you can hear the hurt in their voice, and you can hear the love in their voice.

It makes you feel good when you do a song that, sonically, can fit right next to Drake. But our audience, they don't care. And it hurts that they don't care!

It is helpful for a woman artist not to have a husband.

I have a book of buildings from 25,000 BC. These are huts built out of mammoth bones. These buildings were beautifully made, from the bones of the body into shelter.

I'm not particularly fond of the hybrid writer-director or actor-director.

Many of my songs just come together in quatrains because that's how a hymn goes.

You don't really need a lot of hype and to be famous to sell songs.

Sometimes directors come to me when I have to play some horrible thing, scary or hysterical or crying; they ask, 'Did you study somewhere to be an actress?' No, this is life. That's why I think I don't want to say you need a really bad experience to be a good artist, but bad experiences in your life say something.

I did an English album called 'Ice' earlier but it was too ahead of its time.

Honestly, the only reason 'Ice Cream' happened was because it wasn't a commercial film.

Playing Frida was hard and wonderful. I found such a force in her, bigger than me. I tried to make it just a woman who had to do what she did. A woman who lived, ate, and laughed. I tried to avoid the 'icon' of Frida Khalo.

There are so many roles that actors like Nawazuddin Siddiqui or Manoj Bajpayee or Irrfan have done. And they make every character iconic. They are the masters of their art... I want to be like that.

I like to believe that rather than destroy icons, I make new ones.

I love creating and being able to see an idea come to fruition. I love making beautiful things.

I love Lee Ann Womack and John Prine. That's kind of my ideal cross point. If I can sing it like Lee Ann would and say it like John would, then I feel like I've gotten somewhere.

I don't think or write from big ideals.

Very few ideas are better than Catherine O'Hara's ideas when it comes to acting.

I guess I'm the guy from the Beastie Boys. I'm one of the guys from the Beastie Boys. I guess that's what I'll always identify myself as.

This idea of collaborating with designers - that's something I can identify with.

For those who are familiar with my work, 'Soulfire' is a return to how most people identify me, which is that soul-meets-rock thing.

With 'Minecraft,' I've started creating serene ambiance music. As the game went on to become famous, people started identifying me as the ambient music person, which I never actually thought I was.

I wonder if some artists determine their entire identity through that which they create. How dangerous! Imagine if they were to stop creating!

'American Idiot' was the hardest show that I've ever done - ever.