Quotes About Artistry

I make my guitar scream with pain or pleasure or sensuality. It makes people move their feet and shake their bodies. That's what music does.

I would love to work with the Coen brothers and Terrence Malick. I love both of their bodies of work so much, so I'm really interested in acting under their direction.

I love bodies of work and albums and stuff like that.

Sometimes I think albums are so ambitious, they don't stand as bodies of work because you try to achieve so much, and sometimes we need to do less. Say less.

I'm not making films just to be bold.

You want to do a lot as an artist, and Bollywood does not always give you that freedom.

As an artist, I am for non-film music as well. I want that to shine as much as Bollywood.

There is a scarcity of writers in Bollywood.

I love it when, after a day of shooting, I'm so exhausted that my bones hurt.

I don't know whether it is a boon or a bane but I can't act. I can just be. To me, that's the beauty of a performance. Otherwise, there is a falsetto, which sounds jarring.

When I'm in the studio, I just let it rip. That's my process. I get in the booth, and whatever is on my mind at the time, I just go off and say it.

You don't get bored with stuff like 'Birdman.'

When you're bored, you get creative.

The Beatles saved the world from boredom.

The most entertaining songs don't always come from a nice place. In songs where I think I'm being really sensitive, they seem quite boring actually. I've found that the songs that come out of nastier, more misanthropic places are better.

I think it's very boring for a director to always do the same kind of movies.

I don't think artists are made, I think they're born.

When you become your own boss, and your artwork becomes your livelihood, it becomes the only thing you think about.

Baking is both an art and a science.

It wouldn't bother me at all not to play on my own album.

The thing of playin' and singin' never bothered me.

People think unless you have loops and electronics and so on, you must be in your 50s. I quite like a lot of things that have loops and sequencers, but I couldn't really be bothered.

A lot of electronic musicians probably wouldn't be bothered making an album, which strategically makes total sense.

I have never been bothered by the length of my role in a film as I want to be associated with good films.