Quotes About Artistry

I love watching Jeff Bridges act. He's brilliant.

I love my music so much, and I love what I'm doing so much that that has become my other half-rather than another person.

Don't get me wrong, I love my first two albums a lot.

I believe I am yet to dance my favorite role, but I am pretty open to adapting to different characters. I would love to be Odette in Swan Lake one day. I think that would be the ultimate role.

I love the fact that no one's ever bought my record because they were enamoured of the way I look. Maybe one person. There must be someone out there with compromised taste.

What I love about making albums in the 21st century is that so few people buy albums! I can make an album without any commercial concerns whatsoever.

I love lots of different types of music, but it's music that has this up-swelling of beauty and emotion that is most important to me.

I just want to try - on a daily basis keep trying - to make music that I really love.

I don't think too much about how it might exist in the world in a commercial sense - I more just try and focus on making music that I love and trying to put it out into the world.

I've always loved rhyming. I love language.

I dont want to waste my energy in other things; instead, I would put all that in reaching the next level in a craft that I love the most.

Even now I can't describe why I love skating so much.

We love a good, hyped sound, but when it starts to sound insincere, that's when I lose interest. I hope that our music, even if it sounds polished, doesn't sound insincere.

I love the 'So You Think You Can Dance' show. I love it. I think it's some of the best hours on TV.

You gotta be, like, a professional hippie. You need to make music because you love it.

If I'm going to sing like someone else, then I don't need to sing at all.

Everyones got to be different. You can't copy anybody and end up with anything. If you copy, it means you're working without any real feeling. And without feeling, whatever you do amounts to nothing.

When I sing it, it affects me so much I get sick. It takes all the strength out of me.

When contemplating our reader, he reminded us, we needed to take the whole person into account. "I always tried to tell the editors to think of the business person as an artist using both sides of his brain," he said. "You're not just writing for a rational person. You are writing for someone who has the soul of an artist, and his expression is business.

I really was never any more than what I was -a folk musician who gazed into the gray mist with tear-blinded eyes and made up songs that floated in a luminous haze.

People are going to say, 'Well, it's not very truthful.' But a songwriter doesn't care about what's truthful. What he cares about is what should've happened, what could've happened. That's its own kind of truth. It's like people who read Shakespeare plays, but they never see a Shakespeare play. I think they just use his name.

All I'd ever done was sing songs that were dead straight and expressed powerful new realities. I had very little in common with and knew even less about a generation that I was supposed to be the voice of.

It's like going out to the desert and screaming and then having little kids throw their sandbox at you. I'm only 24.

Dostoevsky, too, had lived a dismal and hard life. The czar sent him to a prison camp in Siberia in 1849. Dostoevsky was accused of writing socialist propaganda. He was eventually pardoned and wrote stories to ward off his creditors. Just like in the early '70s I wrote albums to ward off mine.