Quotes About Artistry

Albert Brooks is definitely one of my biggest influences, for sure.

When I sit down with filmmakers, I feel like we speak the same language in a lot of ways. We watch the same movies and have the same influences. If anything, it creates a dialogue that makes my work more effective.

I think that because I have so many different influences, and that shows in my music, that different people can connect with it.

I feel like my music is like - there are always new influences in there.

Jimi Hendrix is one of the main influences on why I wanted to play guitar. He really shook me. I think it was his whole style - the look and what he did with the guitar.

I felt I had a good ear, and I had the ability to sing like my influences.

Rush and guitarist Alex Lifeson are among my biggest influences.

I'm not a pop singer; I'm not a jazz singer. And I know I sing like not a whole lot of people do; I also know that a lot of other people act like I do. And better than I do. But what informs the singing is the acting. They're not separate from each other.

You have to let the costume inform you.

I always loved singing, ever since I was a child, and acting is something that always been ingrained in me.

As an artist, one of the ingredients to doing good work is self-awareness, and that's something I cultivate.

You are defined by your ingredients, by the way you touch them, by the flavors you draw from them.

When I write I inhabit a personality that is and is not me.

All movies are inherently collaborative, and animation even more so. There are hundreds and hundreds of people involved with an animated movie.

As an actress I feel that if you start to impose your own inhibitions, then you are not doing your job.

I used to put black ink on the author's name in a book and write my name instead to check how it would look there - such was my passion!

Ballet was this thing that just felt so innate in me, like I was meant to be doing this.

Once you are in the character, you should let your inner actor take over you.

No one can be an artist without a rich inner life.

I don't draw on my inner life in my work.

Creating art is like being sick - you bring up all your innermost thoughts, and then you have to ask yourself why you're doing it.

Innocence has died in Bollywood.

Really, creation and innovation are part of the French DNA.

When I sit behind that electronic drum, it dominates me; there is no innovation in composing music like that.