Quotes About Artistry

I like people like Robert De Niro and Anthony Hopkins. And Gianfranco Zola, who played for Chelsea and Italy. He's an artist with his feet.

When I get an artistic itch, I have to scratch it.

Music has changed. You can just throw songs out on iTunes song by song; you don't have to do a whole album.

Akira Kurosawa, David Lean and Alfred Hitchcock were the main inspirations for 'Samurai Jack,' along with a lot of '70s cinema.

I just think that Jack White is the consummate artist - an artist's artist. I'm a huge fan.

You could say everybody's a fan of Jack Kirby. I would say I'm a fan of Jack Kirby. I'm a fan of Jack Kirby the man.

This whole 'Mondo' thing started when I saw Jack White perform at Coachella a couple of years ago. It was like a religious set, man.

I did a record with Janet Jackson, and it went to the top of the charts, and we had all of these complications, and she couldn't be in the video and couldn't do anything for the record. I went through something similar with Pitbull. I think it works really well for a lot of other artists, but for me, it just doesn't work that well.

When I'm acting in TV or movies, I'm a character. But when I'm doing music, I'm Trevor Jackson.

I get a lot of my inspiration from the Jackson 5 and Luther Vandross.

I don't feel I have to be Jackson Browne. Still, I like to say something.

I naturally gravitated first to R&B and pop: Michael Jackson, Whitney Houston, Aretha Franklin, Patti LaBelle.

The first video that made me want to get into entertainment was Janet Jackson's 'That's The Way Love Goes.'

We want to make music, and we won't become jaded by the business aspect of what we do.

I don't want to have to talk to a lawyer if I want to jam with someone or if I want to sing on someone's album.

I can't try to write a song - songs come out of me. I have to play the guitar and if I jam a song, boom! That's a song.

Prince is from the school of James Brown, and I love James Brown because of all the great rhythms he plays.

Doing this James Brown thing for the last couple of days has been ideal. But it's a different kind of fun.

I'd love to do something with somebody like James Blake.

Faux-freckles are definitely a James Charles touch to any makeup look. I love adding them and have seen so many other people start trying them as well! They're so cute!

The first artist that did it for me with just production was James Blake... I was just blown away... I feel like James Blake kind of was the one that introduced me into that world.

We want to make a 100 million dollar movie that we have created, in the way James Cameron or Chris Nolan does. It's so inspiring when high-quality auteurs are writing and directing those movies. That's pretty cool.

I don't take modern hip-hop as real. It's entertaining, it's fake, like James Bond.

Well actually, we are working on the live album from the shows in Japan. I'm trying to get that finished.