Quotes About Artistry

We're never going to write an 'American Idiot' song.

I'm kind of a hokey-jokey, campy idiot in black lipstick, but when it comes to my music, I take it very seriously.

I was always in bands before, but on 'American Idol,' it was about getting my voice out there. It was always my goal, though, to get a band together again.

An American Idol is someone who knows how to change people's lives through music.

I've known who I am as an artist for a long time; 'Idol' has shown me what I'm capable of. I know it's all possible for me now. I can go in any direction I want. I'm forever grateful to them.

I've always idolized people who can write songs.

You're trying to write for your idols. It's strange.

If I could live in a cabaret, I would. If I could live in 'Moulin Rouge,' I would.

If I could sing, I wouldn't be a guitarist.

But I would love to work with David Lynch, if I could. He's my hero.

I like to think I don't make music for ignorant people.

I'm proud of 'Stop Making Sense,' but it's a little bit of an albatross; I can't compete with it, but I can't ignore it either.

When I wrote 'Grand Illusion,' I was making it up as we went along. I wrote this stuff and tried to do the best job I could.

The fact that I have been successful merely means that I can write and illustrate in my own way.

In any art, you don't know in advance what you want to say - it's revealed to you as you say it. That's the difference between art and illustration.

As the years went by I became a writer and illustrator, although exclusively of fantasies.

Roald Dahl worked with other illustrators, but it was only when he teamed up with Quentin Blake that the chemistry began to fizz. Quentin Blake is Britain's greatest living illustrator and has that special talent all the great illustrators have, of unobtrusive brilliance.

The image is an image.

You're just playing, playing, playing, and then an image or something will come into your mind, and basically you're just narrating it with music, letting it move along.

My image seems to be so infantilized, and I don't really know why. It belittles the music.

Imagery is like music.

I know how important imagery is.

I think people often tend to listen to music with their eyes and not their ears, and I just wanted my work to shine, and to be able to convey my message without imagery taking away from that.

I was dating girls who were actresses, and that was fun, so I took a playwriting class. But that was short-lived. That was one year. Around that time, I was seeing movies that were making me think in terms of images.