Quotes About Artistry

I was taught never to compromise: to never sing a cheap song. I never look down at the audience and think that they are ignorant or think that I'm more intelligent than they are. To think otherwise is totally incorrect and runs contrary to everything I was raised to believe.

Actors go into it because it gives us the chance to play people a great deal more interesting than we are, and to say things infinitely wittier and more intelligent than anything we could think of.

I'm a filmmaker and I intend to continue making films of all kinds, in any manner, shape, or form - short or long.

Genre hopping is something I intend to do, and I intend to do it forever and ever because I think genres are boring.

I never intended to only do dark, serious things.

If you don't like my work in 'The Affair,' that's fine, but I'll stand by the work because I felt that everything that went on camera was what I intended to go on camera.

Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

I was raised in an intensely religious household and I think the influence shows through my music.

When I am so intensely involved with writing my books, I don't like to reread them. I feel like that story is done.

Marty and I are playing with the same intensity. That's the beautiful thing, man, we're actually better now than ever, probably more intense now than ever, tighter now than ever.

Once you sit in front of people and start playing songs, it's all on you. No matter what happens, it's entirely your responsibility the entire time. I like that intensity.

When you're an artist, you can't write with the intent of affecting anyone.

My intention is not to make clothes. My head would be too restricted if I only thought about making clothes.

I started writing songs by myself. That always came from whatever I was feeling and being honest about that because I never had any intention of anyone ever hearing them.

The only intention I've ever had creatively, as a musician, is to be as different from myself as possible.

We don't really intentionally try to sound like ourselves. I think that would be overthinking.

Critics think we try to make bad films. They think we want to spend five months of our lives making something bad. We always go out with the best of intentions, whether it's fluffy comedy or a drama.

I'm not a big equipment guy; I think that people are a little bit shocked by that. I really don't care about gear in general. I care about people and their intentions to make music - it doesn't matter what equipment you have.

Obviously drag has different intentions and my drag has always been about gender illusion.

I separate myself from my characters as much as possible, but I have these books that I create which are interactive diaries/timelines/memory books/pictures of the character's entire world.

Jazz is pretty much the freest thing you can be a part of. It's the closest thing I can get to flying. It's fun, interactive. In its own way, it's a sport.

What you might consider a bad work can be of extreme interest to an artist in ways which are not about its being a good or bad.

I don't look at my work in a critical or analytical way; I just don't think of myself objectively. It doesn't interest me.

I was always interested in choreography - in making people think and feel something.