Quotes About Artistry

Since I was a little girl, I have always been interested in make-up and fashion.

I'm not really interested in making money.

The interesting thing about improvisation is you're making something up in front of the audience. Now music helps you out a little bit because you have an instrument that'll separate you from the audience.

For me as an artist, the expansiveness of my interests and my influences make me enigmatic. I think any man can be that way - if you love enough interesting things.

When you make a piece, one of the interesting things is hearing what other people think about it.

In a way, I feel it might be ill-mannered to try and top myself. The music I play is a ritual. Something that matters to people in a special way. I wouldn't want to interfere with that.

You come up, you love music, and then business interferes.

Fashion and interior design are one and the same.

I never set out to do interior design; I just do what I do, and some people come along and want me to work with them.

It's hard to go back to shooting contemporary apartment interiors after you shoot something like 'Mudbound.'

Internal Affairs' is my first full-length play.

Making music is what drives me - not awards, not Internet fame, not even exorbitant amounts of money. My fans call themselves 'Aadeez,' and they are the most loyal lot. I make my music for them. I love them.

My talent before singing is being able to interpret and understand my emotions. I've felt pain and felt it intensely, so every time I sing, I revisit it.

As I've gone along, I felt like I was discovering an aspect of my voice that I didn't know was there: an ability to interpret a song in a way that makes it more accessible.

As an artist, I can't be responsible for how people interpret material.

What I'm doing is not really based on a definite identification or a definition of what it is. It's intended to be open to interpretation.

Fashion is a big game of interpretation; I simply try to enjoy myself as much as possible.

In the performance sense, I find that interpretation is improvisatory in nature. You can go anywhere with an interpretation on any given day.

I want to show people my interpretation of what creating music is, and this is where it comes from: the heart.

I'm an interpreter of music.

What is the difference between a truly creative artist and an interpretive artist? I have not concluded anything about that, but it's fair to ask the question.

Sometimes, late at night on the set of 'Project Runway,' I've been known to pop an interpretive dance.

I'm trying to learn to really use space. My philosophy is that every time you interrupt space in a very confident, secure manner, then music happens.

The process of writing has something infinite about it. Even though it is interrupted each night, it is one single notation.