Quotes About Artistry

The process depends on the situation, and I don't think there are any two songs that have gone exactly the same way... well, actually, that's not true.

Thyagaraja was not a professional musician. He did not sing for situations. He was music himself.

Simply, the majority of the most interesting filmmakers are the ones confronted with difficult situations. Their creativity blows a hole in the wall and lets in the light.

I've avoided situations where I wouldn't have creative freedom.

I could write six songs in one day with everything that's going on.

Rap records don't make you feel good no more. Six months after release, it can't come back as a classic.

I take six or seven years to write really small books. There is a kind of aesthetic of leanness, of brevity.

I was playing piano at three and started writing songs when I was six or seven, and I've been addicted since then.

When I look back at 2003, it was the best year I've ever had creatively: having 'Transatlanctism' and 'Give Up come' out in the course of six months. I'll never have another year like that.

I've been performing on stage since I was six years old.

You live the life of a dancer. It is not your job, it is your life, and you have to love it so much to be able to take it every day for six days a week, sometimes seven.

In 1980 I sent a play, 'Jitney,' to the Playwrights' Center in Minneapolis, won a Jerome Fellowship, and found myself sitting in a room with sixteen playwrights. I remember looking around and thinking that since I was sitting there, I must be a playwright, too.

I started making music for myself when I was sixteen.

The sixth Harry Potter film - I don't like my performance in that film at all.

Every poem probably has sixty drafts behind it.

I want to be interested in the music I make until I die. That's more important to me than the size of my audience.

I never look at the size of the film when I'm looking for a part.

I am not one to equate dress size and artistic performance.

I feel like the worst has happened to me, so what better person to skate to 'Madame Butterfly' than me?

I'm an ice skater. I'm all about the glitter.

I want to do with skates what Fred Astaire is doing with dancing.

I'm not really good on skates. But dance shoes I can dance in!

I love figure skating. It's what I'm good at.

My skating is a very emotional thing that comes from the heart, never doing it for the medal.