Quotes About Artistry

I love doing impressions and I love doing accents.

I love doing impressions.

I'm delighted to be involved with 'Glow Up.' The make-up artists are so impressive and talented.

I'm actually a big fan of Zion T and Crush. I think they're very impressive. They're very clear about their artistic identities.

Fashion should be a form of escapism, and not a form of imprisonment.

As far as I'm concerned, dance is a passion for me. I don't do homework and go to the sets. I believe in being impromptu. I just go on the sets and start doing whatever comes to my mind.

I am obsessed with improv.

I saturated myself with the improv community.

I don't really do scales... I mean, I play parts of them, but then I bail and start playing parts of other things. The term 'scale' feels very scripted to me because I'm an improv player.

'Sicario' was a lot of improvisation.

There's always a certain amount of camera improvisation.

My shows have room for a bit of improvisation. In a film, you can't have that risk; you can't have someone taking 10 seconds longer.

Without a band, I'm much more free to improvise.

I was a dancer of no repute. But dance taught me a lot. You walk into a dance studio knowing you have to walk out with a dance. You improvise.

My music is written with one goal in mind: to improvise. It's like explaining a great story in words, but without words, much faster than you could with words. It's like a direct line of instantaneous communication where you don't have to wait for the end.

I love improvising.

When I was 6 my dad taught me the blues scale, and I started writing songs and improvising.

When I feel like improvising, I always improvise on the guitar, never on the lute. It's as natural to me as breathing.

I wrote stories from the time I was a little girl, but I didn't want to be a writer. I wanted to be an actress. I didn't realize then that it's the same impulse. It's make-believe. It's performance.

In all fields of creativity you see the result of work that has become habit. Where the creative impulse has become flaccid or has died out altogether, and yet because it is our work and our life we continue to do it.

It is well to be alone. It fertilizes the creative impulse.

When we were putting together 'One Of Us,' we were just following our impulses and what felt good.

I'm not always angry. In fact, I think I usually go out of my way to try to find roles that don't seem to be like me.

Today, not to take away from any of the present artists, but music has gotten a little shallow, in my opinion. Everybody's talking about the same thing: sex, money, clothes, cheating... I want to open up not necessarily better conversations, but, in my opinion, more important ones, and touch on things that are actually going on.