Quotes About Artistry

Ultimately it's just music - whether I'm catering to the Bollywood audience or the indie audience. I just approach every type of music the way I am, and how my personality is.

The artist makes things concrete and gives them individuality.

I looked at myself, and I just said, 'Well, you know, I can sing, but I'm not the greatest singer in the world. I can play guitar very well, but I'm not the greatest guitar player in the world.' So I said, 'Well, if I'm going to project an individuality, it's going to have to be in my writing.'

Makeup is where my career is going, but I would love to also indulge in music. It's still one of my absolute favorite things in the world.

Fashion, film, and music - all these industries have ways of putting us in a box. Ultimately my goal is to push those boundaries.

I base everything on my instinctual approach. There's something very satisfying in that creativity, and it's a bit like an infant drawing.

When it comes to touch and feel as a musician, style is infinitely more important than chops.

I definitely don't think of myself as being an influence.

I've always been the first to admit that Jimi was a very big influence on my early stuff.

I've always said to people that auteurism is nice, but it's hypothetical, and gradually you learn how much or how little influence different directors had.

Tori Amos had a major influence on how I craft words in a song.

I actually have been really influenced by dance music.

Elvis was a giant and influenced everyone in the business.

If you're mostly a writer - if your point of departure is writing something - which for a writer/director is sort of where you start, you're really influenced by the writers you love one way or another.

I'm a writer who likes to be influenced.

You'd have to be completely crazy not to be influenced by and take from other artists. It's completely impossible not to.

There are a lot of country artists now that are heavily influenced by hip-hop. That's not me. I was very heavily influenced by rock & roll.

My best writing is not outside of the beat. I'm 99 percent influenced by the beat first, and then the words just flow.

Who influenced me the most? I'd have to say Lauryn Hill, I think she influenced me the most.

I've definitely grown and evolved as a person, as an artist, you know. Just in terms of my style, my taste, my influences, everything... That's a part of being an artist I think.

My favorite song is called 'Reachout.' There are so many different stories told in that song. I think anyone who listens to it will gather a different meaning, but each answer is true. I also like the sound of it, period - there are a lot of classical influences.

If I see a fashion show with literal influences, it doesn't make me think any more. It doesn't make me dream.

One of my biggest influences is Fela Kuti.

From when I first started listening to music, M. S. Subbulakshmi has been one of my biggest influences. She poured her heart and life into everything she sang.