Quotes About Artistry

If I didn't love it, I would not record it.

As a lyricist, you love to hear other great lyrics or other great concepts.

I love originating shows and originating songs - there is nothing better than being the first one to get to do a song.

I love the process of creating a character; someone entirely different from myself, and depicting it, either on stage or screen.

I think initially the impetus for doing stuff yourself comes from your love of other music.

I like The Smiths - I would love to do a song with The Smiths, because they are so sonically different.

Doing an album is like having a business card; to show people what you do. The most important thing to me is the stage. I do albums because I love the stage.

I honestly just love being in my studio working on music. That's all the inspiration I need. And I don't write with an end result in mind, I just write for the simple love of writing.

I love making things. I love building things. I love the idea that something's in the world that wasn't there before.

I love being in the studio. It's really great. I like it a lot. But of course, I like performing more. But when I'm in the studio mode, it's cool. I like to really focus on it.

There are certain records that you love because the songs are great, but you don't go to them as an example of great production.

I love being a performer. It's like a hole that never closes. It's something in you that never dies.

I love being a drummer but I love being a musician in general and I love the Foo fighters.

The songwriter mustn't fall in love with his own song. If it doesn't belong, he can't push it into a show. Let him save it; maybe it'll fit in another show.

I like Anastacia's version of Love is Alive best.

I love movies with spectacle but spectacle can be a performance, it doesn't have to be a creature.

My pure love is playing music.

I like to make the music that I really love. You're supposed to make your favorite music that no one else played, and I'd like to just keep it at that and not really change it at all.

I absolutely love being on stage. I live and breathe the stage, and nothing makes me happier, but to perform.

I love being on the periphery with a group of people who have the same values that I do. People who don't get off on fame, who just like the process of making movies and thrive.

The great love of my life is music.

Even in the midst of love-making, writers are working on the description.

Love stories that are too simple don't deserve to have films made about them.

I love music and I love musicians. I separate them. I'm a big fan of Lily Allen's music, but I'm not a fan of her personality. I differentiate the two.