Quotes About Artistry

One of the things I love about music is live performance.

I love creative people.

I mean, I really, really love playing solo. Definitely, it's like a labor of love, it's not a huge career. It's not that successful, but it's something I love so much that I'll do it regardless.

I love Billy Joel. I cry sometimes when I hear 'The Stranger.' 'You May Be Right' may be one of the greatest songs ever written.

Sometimes I'll come up with a lick that I really love, and I'll try to put the right words to it for years. Suddenly something comes to me that works just right.

Arts is like the power of now. When you're performing, when you're playing, when you're sculpting, painting, it's that moment. I'm in the moment of my life, and that's what I love to do.

I'm doing what I do for the right reasons. I love the music that I make.

In a perfect world, I would love to do one play for every three movies.

I love the creating part of taking on a character. It is fun to BE another person and create what it would be like to be that person.

I love playing guitar. It's the only thing I've ever really been great at.

Working on music is the funnest thing for me, and I love it, and I could do it all day, all night.

But I love to write music. What I would love to do is give some of the songs I write to someone like Taylor Swift because I feel like she could sing them.

A good edit process turns rocks into diamonds, and every author should love that part as much as the creative phase. I do love it. It's a different side to writing. It's like the fine-tuning.

I love every aspect of show business and that includes both the show part of it and the business part of it.

I would love to have a rapper on one of my songs, like Ludacris, or the 'it's so hot in here' guy, Nelly.

I would love to do a record with Usher.

I get to do what I love every day. I get to crawl into someone else's head and I love that.

I am a hybrid. I do independent films and also do Hollywood films - I love them both.

I love music, and I can play a little. But anyone can see the difference between someone who's talented and someone that's not.

I think it was important that I learned to love to dance eventually for its own sake, as opposed to wanting to be a ballerina.

Acting, I love it and I feel that I'm good at it, but the thing that makes me feel most alive is when I'm playing guitar and singing.

I love music; I was never the type of singer to say, "This is my specific genre, or I only sing R&B music." I feel like as a singer, you should be limitless and you shouldn't be stuck in a box.

Sendak is in search of what he calls a yummy death. William Blake set the standard, jumping up from his death bed at the last minute to start singing. A happy death, says Sendak. It can be done. He lifts his eyebrows to two peaks. If you're William Blake and totally crazy.

If there's anything I'm proud of in my work--it's not that I draw better; there's so many better graphic artists than me--or that I write better, no. It's--and I'm not saying I know the truth, because what the hell is that? But what I got from Ruth and Dave, a kind of fierce honesty, to not let the kid down, to not let the kid get punished, to not suffer the child to be dealt with in a boring, simpering, crushing-of-the-spirit kind of way.